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The risk to health visiting is reported as being high, and the shortage of health visitors means that children are not receiving many of the visits that are laid down in the health visitors’ home visiting pathway.
As I mentioned, we have significant renewable energy potential, particularly around the former Cockenzie power station site, and there are offshore opportunities, as well as strategic development sites at Blindwells.
For example, Glasgow gets about 3 million visitors, so £2 per night per visitor might work out to £6 million being raised by a visitor levy, but that is in the context of a £1.8 billion net budget.
At this point in proceedings, I was going to ask members to welcome visitors who should have been in the gallery today; unfortunately, the weather has beaten them.
We have had assurances that, when an unscrupulous site owner loses their licence, the licence for the whole site will not be revoked, which means that residents will not lose their right to stay.
The rent controls in the bill are part of it, but there are much broader discussions going on about how we bring strategic sites forward. One of the housing investment task force’s key areas of work is on how we bring strategic sites forward at a quicker pace.