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Scottish ParliamentEnterprise and Lifelong Learning CommitteeTuesday 26 September 2000(Afternoon) Scottish ParliamentEnterprise and Lifelong Learning CommitteeTuesday 26 September 2000(Afternoon) The Deputy Convener opened the meeting at 14:03 Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
Is there anything that she can do to stop people—usually millionaires—from bulk buying flats in new housing developments in city and town centres, which freezes out local first-time buyers?
The key issue is the conflict between the desire that public expenditure should buy the service outcomes that we all want and the fact that there can be too much impetus just to get the money spent, which takes us back to the bad old days when people said, "Let's paint some rooms and buy some new carpets."
However, of that 21 per cent, only 7 per cent failed within the period that they were out on special parole, which is the period between halfway and two thirds of the way through their sentence.
As Mr Gallie well knows, as recently as Thursday evening we held the latest European members information and liaison exchange—EMILE—network meeting with our European Parliament colleagues.