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This is an opportunity for us to analyse where rights are secured. The right to buy can be secured elsewhere. Margaret Curran is over-anxious about the right to buy.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many houses in the social rented sector were sold under right to buy in each of the 32 local authority areas in (a) 2003, (b) 2004 and (c) 2005.
The fact is that the Scottish housing associations are, basically, a product of the right-to-buy policy. They were established after the right-to-buy legislation commenced.
The environment is the other side of the coin. One question is how to prevent children from leaving school to buy food or how to prevent businesses from selling food on school perimeters, but another equally important question is why children want to leave the school environment to buy food.
During my years as a councillor, we changed from leasing machinery to buying it out of capital to buying it out of revenue because of the Treasury rules that applied at the time.
If the messages are consistent, and if the rationale for buying into the quality assurance scheme is compelling, buying in becomes easier for those companies.