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The gross margin on tobacco sales is very low, at 5 or 6 per cent.Tobacco sales generate sales of other goods; people come into stores to buy tobacco and buy newspapers and other products.
I am struck by how our views converge on the overall criteria in the strategy—the holistic approach, transparency, the top-down exercise and the emphasis on volunteering.
To do the job, we need an organisation that is on top of the local market situation. That suggestion is a good one, which we should push.Let us not throw the baby out with the bath water.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 September 2005
A report on the results of the consultation was published on the Scottish Executive website on 30 September 2004, as were the responses from organisations and individuals who had agreed to publication of their response.
I think that information about repeat requests would be put on a website if it were obvious that people were continually asking for the same information, so there would not be a problem with that.
The Irish statutory entitlement is half a week per year, but with the strength of the labour courts the Irish workers were able to achieve more. On top of that, a further lump sum of a 3 per cent increase over a three-year period was paid.
Thought must be given to community-owned development trusts; to community buy-ins; to the Scottish Executive's plan to recover rights to the sea bed and foreshore from the Crown Estate commissioners; to reopening farmers markets; and to the acceptance of bequests, gifts and artefacts.