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Item 5 is consideration of the Scottish Government’s response to the committee’s stage 1 report on the bill. Members will have seen the briefing paper and the response from the Minister for Transport and Veteran Affairs to the issues raised by the committee. In the response, the Government makes a commitment to lodge a stage 2 amendment to the delegated powers in section 2, which provides for a variation of council tax liability for unoccupied properties. The committee will therefore consider the bill again once stage 2 has been completed.