Chamber and committees

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received any representations from Highlands & Islands Enterprise relating to improvements in the mechanisms for community ownership described in Land Reform: Proposals for Legislation and, if so, whether it will adjust its policy to incorporate the suggestions made in particular by using a wider definition of eligible community members than tenants and employees alone, providing an emergency 'late registration' process for communities where land comes on the market unexpectedly, allowing existing bodies such as community councils to register an interest on behalf of a community, extending the time to be given to communities to assess whether they might buy land when it comes on the market, and pricing land at an economic rather than market value; and, if it will not adjust its policy in these ways, whether it will state its reason in each case.