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• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 January 2010

Following on from the point that Andrew [Boff] was raising, you said there is going to be a budget line for your academies. How many staff are you envisaging will be working on this when you are going to be having, you say, about five to ten? What sort of figure are we talking about in your budget?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

Can I go back to the surplus, Mr Rogers. I am a great fan of yours and I know how good you are at cutting out unnecessary expenditure, and I am in a way delighted you have got a surplus, but also I have similar reservations to Ms Shawcross. I am a great believer that if we have raised tax, we should actually spend it and not stash it away in the bank. Are you examining any projects that you have previously turned down to now spend your surplus?