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The purpose of each amendment is to ensure that those acts take account of the existence of the new types of tenancy that the 2003 act created, namely limited duration tenancies and short limited duration tenancies—LDTs and SLDTs.
The SAC spends about £26 million or £27 million of public money—I am not trying to sound like Brian—and usually spends it rather well, but there are big questions about the size of its bureaucracy.
Basically, we can defer the decision until the new year. We should decide that we will take the time that is available, but we do not have to decide what we intend to do with it.
There is concern about the proposal to confer a new power on Scottish ministers to make remedial orders and about the consequential lack of opportunity to amend the orders.
It was the committee's aim, in going to Aberdeen and Perth, to meet in areas that parliamentary committees had not hitherto visited. That was why we considered places other than Dumfries.
That the Parliament agrees that consideration of the Health Board Elections (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1 be completed by 26 January 2007.—Ms Margaret Curran.