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We must consider whether the procedure that has been gone through is overly cumbersome compared with the procedure that would have been followed in relation to a road.
People have said that the proposed system is the least proportional STV system in the world. However, we should be comparing the system not with systems elsewhere in the world, but with the first-past-the-post system that it will replace.
The next election may bring changes whereby, for example, the Conservatives go down and we go up, or vice versa, so that one party deserves one and a half places compared with half a place for the other.
Under the income-contingent loan system, they repay £819 a year at the rate of 9 per cent of their income over £10,000. That compares with £3,000 per year under the mortgage-style scheme.
Thirty-eight per cent of Scottish manufacturing plants carry out research and development, compared to 52 per cent just across the border in northern England.