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There are many historical reasons why we have reached that point; perhaps one is the right to buy. Anyone who needs a house urgently, whether that is a woman with three kids who is made homeless or an asylum seeker, will end up in poor housing.
Although we acknowledge that the promoter employed many methods to engage with the public, we feel that the chance to get buy-in to the project from local communities has been missed.
We do not know where that money goes. It certainly did not buy us anything that we required. We were very conscious of the thought that we, as taxpayers, had paid for everything.
He asked me to seek to withdraw amendment 247 in favour of the possibility of an Executive amendment's being lodged at stage 3, but I have never been in the business of buying a pig in a poke. I do not know whether the Executive amendment will cover the terms of amendment 247.I simply did not understand the minister's reference to my amendment's being outsi...
There is a problem with people who, knowingly or unknowingly, sell alcohol to under-age teenagers, but a more difficult problem, for which I do not have a solution, is adults who buy alcohol on behalf of young people.
Do you require to examine a bit more closely the absolute number of houses that are available in areas such as parts of Highland and to consider that in the context of homelessness as well as the measures that have been announced to deal with right-to-buy problems? We need to factor the issue of homelessness and how we deal with that into general considerat...
Instead of people being provided with services chosen by local authorities, direct payments give them the power to buy in their own services.The bill will ensure that direct payments are available throughout Scotland and will make them available to all care client groups.