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Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands and the Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity to the Convener, 26 June 2023.
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Date answered:
12 September 2019
In addition, we have empowered communities to address the problems caused by vacant properties. The Part 3A Community Right-to-Buy allows communities to buy buildings and land that are abandoned, neglected or detrimental.
The Scottish Government is in agreement with this provision. 7. Clause 47 provides for a limit on when the court may make an order for expenses in relation to UWOs against the Scottish Ministers or the Lord Advocate.
Again, due to budgetary pressures, it was not possible to make an above GDP Deflator increase for 2025/26, the rates were increased by the GDP Deflator of 2.37%.
The report was then debated in the Scottish Parliament on 26 October 2023. The Parliament:
agreed with the recommendation to establish two further citizens' panels in Session 6 with a view to making the use of such panels a regular feature of committee scrutiny from Session 7 onwards
endorsed the Committee's recommen...
The Committee’s anticipated timeline for implementation of its recommendations is set out in the following infographic:
What is happening next with the recommendations?Figure 7: Timeline of implementation of its recommendationsScottish ParliamentA debate in the Chamber on the Committee’s report on 26 October showed t...