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It is easier to get a grip on how we buy things in Scotland, because of our scale, but my concern is not about how we buy things, but about how we measure what we are doing.
Without crofting, many such remote areas would die. It is therefore essential that crofting is not put under threat, but is instead given all possible help to ensure its long-term future.
I am keen to put something on the committee's position on the website. I will try to do that. Are we going to ask the Executive what it is doing about this?
Crofting Community Right to Buy (Ballot) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (SSI 2004/227) There are slightly more questions for the Executive on these regulations.
The alternative vote system creates potential problems—much depends on how great a transformation is brought about by the top-up element of that system. In selling that system to political parties, that information might be important because a top-up of 15 per cent would have a radically different effect from a top-up of 40 per cent to 50 per cent.