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The Scottish Government continues to encourage all developers to engage with local communities early in the process, and to offer – as standard, in any new or repowered development – the opportunity for shared ownership.”
Following this, it agreed to close the petition on the basis that there is already legislation to deal with the matter and that the Scottish Government had no plans to introduce new legislation providing for a more specific offence.
However, we need to build a system that can live with the virus, which does not impact on the delivery of services such as planned care. Managing long waits must be central to this as we move towards delivering our ambition to protect, stabilise and recover planned care.
In previous meetings, we have considered whether a new body is needed to ensure—I do not want to use the word “enforce”—that what is outlined in the bill and the envisaged plan works.
There is an impact on long-term planning by the industry. Members have invested in island communities by building new distilleries and expanding existing distilleries, but some construction projects have been held up.
Presuming that a UK-wide digital sales tax will not be forthcoming in the immediate future, and given the difficulties that have been mentioned about the devolution of new national taxes to Scotland, is that something that you are considering with COSLA as a potential local tax power?
Agenda item 2 - Kaukab Stewart MSP, Minister for Equalities, on Deafness, Deafblindness, and the Disability Equality Plan. The Disability Equality Plan was launched on 20 June 2025.