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The member is correct to point out that the other side of that coin is that the UK Government requires us to achieve our targets if it is to achieve its targets.
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Date answered:
30 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many first-time buyers have been assisted to buy a home in each year since 1999. I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-16291 on?
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
2 February 2023
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Before you buy anything, you should think about how you can maximise the social and environmental benefits or address inequalities as part of how you buy.
If I cannot spend money by the end of the financial year, I will lose it; it does not roll over. I can buy something on 27 March, because I have money, but I cannot buy it on 2 April, because I do not.
Providing the specific expenditure for a newspaper or outlet would potentially allow competitors of the media buying agency to calculate the rates negotiated by the appointed media buying agency who work on behalf of the Scottish Government.
On the tax side of things, as I said, when the new evidence comes in, it would be worth looking at whether the increases—especially those in the very top rate of tax—have increased revenues or have pushed Scotland above the top of the Laffer curve.
Notwithstanding the savings that might occur through bulk-buying, there is risk that the local authority makes this significant capital investment when demand for clean heating is still growing.