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However, should an urgent priority arise, are you able to postpone assignments to take on extra work, or is there an alternative route by which you can fund unplanned work?
Those two years are comparable years, rather than 2013-14 and 2014-15. Why the extra £200,000? I think that you are seeing the interaction of both points that we raised in response to the earlier question.
Where we can, we will try to meet the extra expense from our budget but, if the workload is unduly high, we will probably come back to the SPCB and ask for contingency funding for extra expenditure.
For that reason, one criticism of minimum pricing is that it would create a windfall for supermarkets.Can you tell us a little bit about the extra revenue that is raised because of minimum pricing?