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I hope that I can reassure her that work has been undertaken to identify the barriers to that and to deal with them. We have the screening inequalities fund to look at those issues.
However, the scale of the need, as you will have seen from the distressing pictures on our television screens and newspapers, is massive. We are estimating that this will be the fastest growing refugee crisis since the second world war.
The RSLs also introduced a much greater voice for tenants associations. In rural areas, there can be difficulties with tenants feeling that they have an overall voice, but the housing associations have been able to provide that.
The committee fairly recently undertook an extensive inquiry into renewables, so we are aware that a lot of the marine and offshore development will not happen between now and 2020 and that the majority of it will happen after that. As far as I am aware, no tenant will ever be joyous about paying rent.
I suppose that the issue comes back to land tenure, but what alternatives might be available to ensure that tenant farmers are protected from landowners being tempted to take back land in hand in order to meet that 2011 requirement?
There is a health and safety hotline but it is rarely, if ever, used, because of the regulator’s inability to make unannounced visits. The lead-in and investigation time would invariably identify the individual who is reporting.