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First-time Buyers (Financial Support) (PE1827) Item 2 is consideration of new petitions. The first new petition is PE1827, on support for first time buyers in areas with higher house inflation.
There is a pay agreement for 2024-25, but that was reached only a few months ago, so we are already behind in pay uplift for staff and 2025-26 has not been agreed. SRUC sits outside the new National Joint Negotiating Committee agreement, which is a UK-wide pay body that agrees pay.
We will want to go into the reasons for that—we know some of them. You say that new entrants can buy into farming, but new entrants have not been helped either.