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The research took place in primary schools in 2014 and found that “98% of respondents drew on additional funding for practical activities, with parental sources the most common for extra-curriculum activity."1Learned Societies Group. (2019). written submission.
Some additional qualitative research of the kind that we did, which involved talking to people in those areas about the extra costs, would be required, as well as some regular, fairly routine updating of prices.
That is helpful. You are saying that there are extra problems because of Brexit and volatility, but that there is also a long-term problem as to how we actually do this.
I had a patch earlier this year of making small bets with colleagues to test whether they could tell me where the extra £200 million-odd came from or not.
If they were accessible, tourism in the Europe could support an extra 3.4 million jobs. Thankfully, Scotland and the UK do well in comparison with other destinations in Europe.
Over and above that, in pillar 2 we are putting in extra resource for agri-environment schemes, which were announced as part of the consultation process, and substantial extra resource for restoring peatlands, which is an important measure.
If all the spare time is used up for back benchers, those of us who wind up unfortunately find ourselves with no extra time at all. However, today we have managed to manufacture the luxury of extra time.