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However, I submit that the closures in the Borders are additionally related to the council's need to raise funds to add to its public-private partnership/private finance initiative building programme, in which there is a funding gap.
The choice should be about whether we are prepared to increase our support for environmental objectives within the overall agricultural support programme of £0.5 billion. I will give a slightly different answer.
The information that was held by the Scottish Traveller education programme—the committee took evidence from Dr Jordan earlier in its inquiry—was uncertain even on that.
As we have said, and as the minister said, none of the projects in the national programme will go ahead unless a satisfactory business case is in place at the point of funding commitment.
The system could be organised, but inevitably boxes were switched.The situation was confusing for presiding officers and polling clerks. We conducted a good training programme, but there was a sense of relief at the end of election day in 1999.