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To be honest, if they are going to buy in those shops, they will not want to trudge all the stuff that they can buy there back to Birmingham when they can go to the Bullring and do the same.
In other words, the public will be conned into buying a service of dubious benefit to replace the loss of revenue to registrar services that councils run.
Perhaps more important, it works well and has worked well over centuries. The fundamental principle of buying property has been based on our registration of title system that was the envy of the world for many years.
Neither the consultative group that existed before we took office nor that which was set up afterwards proved that instituting a tenant's right to buy would do anything other than dry up a limited supply.
There should be less dubiety and more commitment.The second point is that I agree with what the convener said, but I also agree in part—do not die of shock, Mike—with what Mike Russell said.
It is shocking that more than 450 Scots die from hospital acquired infections—that is more than die in road accidents.I welcome the work done by the Clinical Standards Board for Scotland and its interim report into hospital acquired infections.
The quality of planning, implementation and performance management is judged to be green in the case at the top of the league table and red in the case at the bottom.