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Do you suggest that, under the proposed new rule, the substitutes for parties that already have nominated substitutes should be those persons, or could the parties nominate new substitutes?
An element of the patronage will clearly come from the delivery of the new housing developments at Tweedbank and Shawfair and in other parts of Midlothian.
It seems that much of what you have just said could apply just as much to the new system. It is a possibility that those things could happen under the new system.