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Specific measures proposed to encourage greater diversity are: enabling the Scottish ministers to intervene where the scale of land ownership or decisions by landowners are a barrier to local development; improving the existing community right to buy and introducing a new right to buy as part of the current Community...
Just last month, Scotland’s food watchdog issued a warning about the deadly substance known as DNP, which is found in some diet pills and which has caused 26 people to die since 2007. Huge harm is also done by encouraging disordered eating.
In theory, 80 per cent of the ratings had to be in the top two categories for us to move into the group of applications that were to be considered for funding.
There are cuts when there is a reduction in resources at the same time as new money is being put in at the top. There is no point in putting in new money at the top if people use it just to keep the service at the same level.
If you take a bottom-up approach rather than a top-down approach, from my experience—again, in Europe and in the world—you start with the people who actually know what they are doing.
We certainly feel that islanders are overlooked because their skills are not recognised in the matrix that people are looking for. There is the other side of that coin, too. As I think both Rona MacKay and Naomi Bremner mentioned, there are good examples out there of community land and so on.