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Looking at the wider picture, I am sure that all committee members will want me to express our support for the bid that has been made for Edinburgh to host the green investment bank.
The proportion of childcare costs that is covered by working tax credits has been reduced, there has been an increase in the taper rate for tax credits, and the baby element of the child tax credits has been removed.
All that is good news. It is to the credit of my predecessor and the immense credit of the thousands who work on the front line in the Scottish education system that we have made such progress.
The point is made that bankruptcy is for those who are in major need of debt relief, and concern is expressed about the greater opportunity to miss contributions, which would perhaps increase hardship.
Historically, capacity margins have been a kind of metric for whether there is enough generation to meet peak demand. The de-rated capacity margin is another variation on that.
My point is that if we do not have an objective to ensure that we de-risk farming and that there are viable farming units, the term “regenerative” means nothing.
I just wanted to give more background for the view that I expressed. Even if the transfer of the actual market did not of itself remove the common good status, the original purpose of the site—its use as a market—disappeared when the market was transferred to the new location.
The update from the cabinet secretary says that the first tranche is due to be released on 26 June, which does not leave long for planning to be put in place.
Government planning officials, through their routine planning liaison responsibilities, received in early December, the agenda for the Cairngorms National Park Authority''s meeting on 14 December.