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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."
Part 2 does not extend our powers: it underpins our current activity. The new programme of performance inspection that ministers have tasked the new agency with undertaking replicates the powers in the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 to ensure that our current activity is adequately underpinned.
I will not go through all the detail, but you can see the impact on business starts; account and client-managed companies; the major industry projects; new ITI research projects; new proof of concept fund projects; and new R and D plus activities.
We have the efficient government agenda as well as the productivity agenda that is being implemented as part of the new reality of new working practices and new technology.