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It has identified potential for opening new quarries, particularly in rural and marginalised areas, in order to stimulate local economies by creating new skilled jobs and combating population loss.
As a result, employment growth in Scotland looks more resilient than we might have anticipated. There is therefore some good news in the middle of all that bad news.
Unless a compelling reason why the new body should not have those powers comes up in the discussions with other partners, I cannot think why we would want to fetter the new body, which is independent for a reason.