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People who have bought houses— I am sorry to interrupt but, to clarify, people buy the houses on what was the laird's land and a condition of their buying them— I understand that.
They do not have the problem of increased rents for larger premises. It may be that, instead of buying bigger premises, they simply buy second premises, and continue to receive relief on two properties.
They do not have to stop doing certain things and start doing new things in their scrutiny work. The work on sustainable development simply involves adding another layer or mining a new seam in what they already do.
If there were four vacancies at the start of the next session and, say, six candidates for those four vacancies, members would move to the first type of voting, which is mentioned in paragraph 7 of the proposed new rule and thereafter.