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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.
For example, there are major issues with measures in the Housing (Scotland) Bill, such as mass stock transfer and extending to tenants of housing associations the right to buy. Those measures are politically contentious and there might well be amendments lodged by various sources that could radically alter them.
Do you think that the changes that are proposed in the housing bill and measures such as wholesale stock transfer, under which councils will lose their stock to a series of registered social landlords, and the extension of the right to buy to housing association tenants, will make it more or less likely that someone will take up that challenge?
We want to ensure that consumer confidence is protected so that, when people go into shops anywhere in the country, they can be confident about the food that they buy and know that we have taken all available steps to ensure that they can have that confidence.