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However, if you are a committee convener, you have to do extra work but are not remunerated, whereas, if you take another path—as a junior minister, a minister or a cabinet secretary, for example—you are remunerated.
In essence, my budget would be graduated down, and the SPSO’s budget would be graduated up in order to pay for the equivalent of half an extra member of staff. So, in effect, your budget is top-sliced, and money goes into the central pot.
Can we provide hand-holding for organisations that do incredible work with young people, adult learners and participants, but need a bit of extra help to understand how to articulate that in an application?
The Educational Institute of Scotland has said that teachers are working on average 11 hours extra per week unpaid, and they are still waiting for reduced contact time.
The Scottish Government is not on track to deliver on its commitment to recruiting an extra 800 GPs by 2027, and its earlier commitment to recruiting 1,000 new community mental health workers has been abandoned.
In addition, the contractor on the AWPR said that it ended up losing money because there were extra costs. Do you think that that put contractors off looking at the A9 again until you came up with this new contract?
ESS does have the right to judicial review, but, as I said, is probably quite concerned about the cost of going that extra mile if it needs to do so. That is really useful.
However, the SSPCA does not see these new duties and powers as extra work. It is already doing this work, but its hands have been tied as a result of not having powers with regard to animals that are found already dead in traps.