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Has the committee ever considered whether amendments that are basically new motions should be accepted for debate and whether only genuine amendments should be allowed?
It is not just Speyside or islands such as Islay and Jura, which George Lyon mentioned, that will be affected by the new tax on the whisky industry; areas such as Dumbarton, Dalmuir, Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire will be hit, too.
Amendment 13 would allow Scottish ministers to do that by adding a new procedure or by adding a new exception to the offence—for example, a new cosmetic surgical procedure.
It would be surprising if any department could spend 75 per cent of its EYF on genuinely new areas; most of the money will simply return to where it comes from.