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While requiring its contractors to seek the best price in the open market, consistent with its quality standards, the Ministry does look to buy home produced products where they are competitive.
That is a burden that councils will have to bear on top of any backlog costs. Jim Valentine has explained quite well how we have been trying to take this matter forward.
Also, we are hearing more evidence that backs up concerns that although we have the buzzwords and the initiatives, we do not have the key top-level targets on Scottish economic growth that would signal to investors—whether indigenous or foreign—that we are serious about the matter.
We therefore use our surplus capacity and our by-products for those processes; we do not buy especially for those processes. How far back do the surplus by-products go?
The section will confer a power on ministers to make regulations that prescribe additional information that a landlord is to supply to a tenant who has served an application to purchase under the right-to-buy provisions. New section 63A(2A) of the 1987 act will ensure that such information is provided to a prospective right-to-buy purchaser only if the tenant has paid the landlord for its provision.