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The ScottishGovernment is committed to discussionswith the UK Government on options for the transfer of responsibility for oiland gas resources to the Scottish Parliament.We will focus onthis issue of principle.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 August 2007
As partof this discussion we will consider the feasibility of a Scottish Olympic team.Once these discussions have taken place, I will be in a better position to estimatethe costs of transferring athletes on UK programmes into aScottish Olympic team.
The minister agreed that we should meet to discuss that, and we did so on 26 February. At the end of that meeting, he said that he or his officials would come back to me before the deadline for lodging stage 3 amendments.
First, as somebody who graduated with a degree in philosophy 26 years ago, I say thank you very much to Kayla-Megan Burns for validating my educational choices.
It is clear, however, that that will not happen—we might not even be at 2.7 per cent by 2025-26—but that was the basis on which the resource spending review was produced.
Here, the design of the provisions is based on the criteria in sections 24 (that there be an “advantage”), 25 (that obtaining an advantage is the main purpose of the “arrangement”) and 26 (that the avoidance arrangement be “artificial”).