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There can be grants or different models of loans.We are also developing match-making schemes such as the homes again project in the south and east of Scotland, which is about trying to match people who want to sell with people who want to buy. There are various creative solutions.
Right now, we do not have the tenure, because there is still a right to buy on non-new supply shared equity, and how do you work that out on a shared tenancy?
When a person is offered a house, they can go and see it a week later and get their keys and move in a week after that, but there can still be another three and a half months before they get a community care grant to buy basic things such as curtains, carpets and white goods.
I have colleagues who are going to Islay today for a three-hour meeting. They left at 7 o’clock this morning and they have an overnight stay, with just the possibility that they might engage.
On current pay and back pay, if 40 per cent of councils' expenditure is salaries and they spend £16 billion, that probably means that £6 billion to £7 billion is spent on salaries. As 8 per cent of that is £480 million or thereabout, the cost could be as little as £60 million to £70 million—1 per cent of £6 billion to £7 billion—or as much as £500 million.
RTPI Scotland suggested that amendment to the Bill to provide for that could considerably strengthen SDZs.12Official Report. (2018, March 7). Local Government and Communities Committee, Col 60.
It was cutting average welfare payments by 4 per cent, which means that families in receipt of welfare payments will suffer a 7 per cent loss of income. That is far beyond anything in the worst of what Patrick Harvie can dream up about the UK coalition.
That is what we did; the table to which you refer was not a result of simply sitting down and seeing whether we could get, say, 7 or 15 per cent across the board. We took each budget line and asked people, "Why are you doing this?
The Glasgow community justice authority says that it wants to reduce reoffending through partnership. It says on its website: “We aim to reduce reoffending as well as improving outcomes for communities, offenders and the criminal justice system.