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Your argument could apply only to the relatively small proportion of properties for which the existing tenure expires and there are negotiations about a new lease, or to leases of new hereditaments.
Nonetheless, we believe that serious research had to be undertaken into the different costs of provision of different subjects, in order to justify new funding groups and the new prices associated with them.
Last summer, I was delighted to see the school's latest initiative, which involved building a greenhouse out of 2-litre soft drinks bottles—I say to John Swinney that they were a mixture of green and white bottles.
Further, users of private water are usually in economically fragile areas and this latest set of proposed charges could well tip the balance for some small businesses and make them non-viable.