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I agree with the rather restrained comments that my colleague Mr Smith made criticising the former Conservative Government for the uncontrolled way in which it allowed the right to buy with no follow-on policy of replacing the housing.
Would it be possible to bring together the various budgets that deal with that priority, so that we can see that the money follows the rhetoric? Are you distinguishing between youngsters who engage in antisocial behaviour and spending on those programmes?
As far as official announcements were concerned, Clive Shore's split between the business case first and the policy case second was followed. Whether that was actually the case is not clear, but it was claimed to be the case.
It was calculated that the costs of the injuries were as follows: a minor injury was estimated to cost £9,920; a serious injury to cost £128,650; and a death to cost £1.145 million.
Obviously, those that were in the pipeline would still be taken through the process. To follow up, do you envisage that the cut-off date would be for the lodging of bills, or would you still allow bill proposals after that date?
Does the committee wish to make a report following this morning's proceedings? Before we answer that, I would like to know who decides that there will be no debate on the issue.
It appears to me that additional funding of £4 million next year and £9 million the following year would not allow for any additional 24-hour support, and I wonder whether the SCRA's position is that there is no need for any more 24-hour provision for young offenders in Scotland.
He thought that all that would set the tone and that the rest would follow on from it.I have listened to Andrew Walker, and no one in Scotland is better than Kevin Woods on the difficulties of effective performance management and how to get top-down and bottom-up processes.
We suggest that any use of the intervention power following the bill is likely to be more targeted and therefore less expensive than was the case with NHS Argyll and Clyde.