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Chamber and committees

Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, October 25, 2022


Contents


Subordinate Legislation


Council Tax (Exempt Dwellings) (Scotland) Amendment (No 2) Order 2022 (SSI 2022/272)

The Convener

Agenda item 3 is consideration of a piece of subordinate legislation. Because the instrument is subject to the negative procedure, there is no requirement for the committee to make any recommendation on it.

Do members have any comments?

Miles Briggs

I am happy enough with the instrument, but I am a bit concerned about the lack of data on which councils it would apply to. I wonder whether we could request that data and, indeed, look to gather it in the future, given that, with the suspension of the Scottish Government’s supersponsor scheme, councils might be facing a higher burden as a result of council tax not being collected.

The Convener

Does the committee agree that we do not wish to make any recommendation on the instrument, and that we will gather the information to which Miles Briggs referred?

Members indicated agreement.

The Convener

We agreed at the start of the meeting to take the other items on our agenda in private so, as we have no more public business, I close the public part of the meeting.

10:03 Meeting continued in private until 10:30.