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The general services that all parents can benefit from are now threadbare. Health visiting is so overstretched and under-manned—or under-personed—that the latest proposal is that health visitors' visits be restricted to high-poverty and high-deprivation areas.
The Executive's letter talks about providing for a"right to buy when rural land comes to be sold, a crofting community right to buy and a right of responsible access."
The fact that the programme is universal means that any eligible person whose system breaks down—even if they live in the largest house in Scotland—is entitled to a new one. That situation is new. We are responding to the new demand as quickly and effectively as possible.
If we take the UK spending level to be 100, members will note that education spending in Scotland at the start of the devolution period was 26 per cent above the UK average, but has now fallen to 17 per cent above the UK—117 in the table.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 April 2004
There are no plans to review the Right to Buy legislation. The Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 requires Scottish ministers to publish a report on the effects of the Right to Buy by September 2006.