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How much of the increased figure is new money and how much is intended to meet new burdens or initiatives that the Executive may put on you in terms of policy initiatives?
One of the reasons why we are about to reopen consideration of policy on the matter is that there is an argument that the taxation regime is an incentive for people to buy holiday homes in rural areas, which forces house prices up and forces local people out of housing.
He suggested that a benefit of the proposed new policy is that it would weed out some applications and ensure that new applications from the industry are substantive.
We will draw the lead committee's attention to that fact.The seventh point centres on another whole twist and turn in the instrument which creates confusion with regulation 4(2) and new regulations 8(7), 8(12) and 8(13) to 8(15).
Bullying was a sufficient offence in itself and had to be dealt with in an inimitable way.The new paragraphs that the Executive is proposing to include in section 26 of the Ethical Standards in Public Life etc.
A publication is in preparation—it will be published on 26 November—which looks across the suite of inspections that we have undertaken in the first three years of our work for SFEFC.
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Minister for Transport will next visit the Stirling district. I hope to visit the Stirling district, in my capacity as Minister for Transport, soon.
Furthermore, your paper continues with the claim that"a number of voluntary groups have already been contacted and visited".Have you and Adam Ingram "contacted and visited" those groups, or are you referring to work that has already been undertaken by other committees?