S2W-31435 - Colin Fox (Lothians) (SSP) (Date Lodged 26 January 2007) : To ask the Scottish Executive how devolved services may benefit from any monies which become available should a decision be taken not to replace Trident nuclear weapons.
Answered by Tom McCabe:
The responsibilities of the Ministry of Defence are reserved to the UK Government and so no Barnett consequentials come to the Scottish Executive as a result of allocating resources to defence.
Only if the UK government reallocated resources to another UK Department, to be spent on functions with a devolved comparator, would any additional resources come to Scotland. It would be misleading to suggest that there would be any automatic additional resources available to the Scottish Executive.
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Just to think what we could do with all that money to help so many people.
I can`t because it hurts to think what it WILL be potential used for only to kill so many people and the cost of it all will make a few very RICH but that is Blair/New Labours intent that is what it is all about.
Some who come onto Colin`s site may find this link helpful to try and help others...
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/?ltl=1172347285
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