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Are you asking whether it would have an impact on new deals? Yes. If you are using the PFI structure, there would certainly be an impact on new deals, because you would need to look at the credit quality of the new entity that was paying the unitary charge.
There is now an opportunity—I hope that the new First Minister or those in the new Cabinet are listening—for the post of dedicated minister for the environment to be reinstated.
We will support businesses in grasping the opportunities of the new economy, invest in research and development, support new entrepreneurs and sustain the vital link that transforms the ideas of the laboratory into new product manufacture.
I wonder whether you accept that, in your brave new world and brave new model, a duty to consult could also be incorporated and would not run contradictory to your proposal.
However, as Lord James Douglas-Hamilton predicted, I point out that the bill introduces a new system. Indeed, the convener referred to that new system in referring to section 3.