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I need say only that I am content to support amendments 4, 16 to 22 and 26.Amendment 4 agreed to.Section 3—Duty to uphold certain rights and principlesAmendments 5 and 6 moved—Dr Simpson—and agreed to.
On the point about timing, I think that the Minister for Public Finance said that only the news about the new property income tax powers was not leaked before the UK budget was announced.
Often, we find ourselves advocating for particular policies, then new evidence and ideas emerge, and we need to engage with that new evidence and those ideas with an open mind and not with prejudice towards our previous positions.
The scheme will also create 500 jobs across the country, with 140 new jobs at a recycling plant in Motherwell and 70 jobs in Aberdeen already announced.
The second point is that we know from New York, Vienna, Paris and Amsterdam that some of the big global corporations will take every opportunity to challenge licensing, new schemes and new systems.
The Institute of Fiscal Studies published the analysis referred to on 19 March 2015. The latest meeting of the Council of Economic Advisers was held on 3 March 2015, prior to this publication.