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Homestake will help first-time buyers and people on low incomes who are unable to afford to buy a house on the open market. The first houses under the new scheme will be available later this year.
Before being formally lodged, the petition was hosted on the e-petitions website and, in the period between 7 July and 26 August 2005, it gained 140 signatures.
One education official was quoted in the Southern Reporter on 26 July as saying that the committee had been unsuccessfully "gambling with staff slippage".
They clarify that the needs referred to in sections 7 and 20 specifically include support needs, so that the new council and fundable bodies are required to have regard to support needs.
Scottish ParliamentSubordinate Legislation CommitteeTuesday 7 January 2003(Morning) Scottish ParliamentSubordinate Legislation CommitteeTuesday 7 January 2003(Morning) The Convener opened the meeting at 11:33 I welcome everyone to the first meeting in 2003 of the Subordinate Legislation Committee.