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It was an impact of the implementation of the new system. However, it is exactly because of the new system that delays are no longer taking place at the same level.
Those communities have received bad news, but, in the past year, Shetland and elsewhere have been given the good news that, after decades of decline, the population of the Highlands and Islands is increasing.
Does that not relate to the next point on proposed new section 19(10)(a)(i)? It does. Our first point is on the same procedural point that we raised on proposed new section 12(3).
However, those who would like to become involved in that appear to have no confidence in the system that would enable them so to do.Can the minister explain why there seems to be little demand to use the new system? What action will the minister take to make the new system more acceptable to those who wish to let lan...