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You would concede that the economy of the area around Edinburgh is already overheating and that house prices are such that people cannot afford to buy. For Fife to catch some of the benefit, it seems reasonable that people be given every encouragement to buy houses in Fife.
Is it correct that if an RSL with charitable status took on CIC status, the right to buy would have to be reintroduced, for example, whereas that right would currently not exist if an RSL had charitable status?
Would he be prepared to put in £500 million on top of the other billions of pounds of taxpayers' money that we have wasted in the nuclear industry to save British Energy?
In the current year—2001-02—SEPA will receive from the Executive grant in aid of £22.6 million. On top of that, £17.4 million will come from regulatory charging schemes.
I am thinking specifically about the Executive's wardens scheme. Questions must be asked about how effective that scheme is, as compared with putting police on the streets, in providing a zero-tolerance approach to crime.
That is a cost saving right away. In one clean sweep, you could buy all the recording equipment that you would need for business during the rest of that court's existence.
A similar project is going ahead at Ayr, but there is huge community buy-in. I think that everyone is in favour of the project at Ayr.I hear your side of the argument, but those who are promoting the project must have some good reasons for doing so.