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There are no plans to give local authorities the statutory right to buy specific properties from landlords who are struggling as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 April 2017
I was also pleased to provide further support on Friday 31 March 2017 by announcing the retention of a higher £200,000 price ceiling for the Help to Buy (Scotland) Affordable New Build schemes for 2018-19.
We can put all the bells and whistles we like on our legislation, without adequate resources care services will die on their feet and choice will be further limited.”
These changes were informed by recommendations in the Report into the law 14 and procedures in serious sexual offences in Northern Ireland by Sir John Gillen, as set out at paragraphs 3.64 and 3.65 of that report: “In passing I note that the anonymity of the complainant lasts for the complainants’ lifetime and ceases when they die. This no doubt reflects th...
It is a terrible tragedy that sailors survived a war, only to die yards from their own shore. It has already been said that many of their families were waiting for them on the quayside with the bunting out.