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On Adam Tomkins’s original question, I am struggling to think of businesses that will generate extra high earners. There will not be extra additional-rate taxpayers in the public sector.
However, because I know that I am running an out-patient department at the same time, my professional judgment would allow me to say that I need an extra five staff in the mornings when out-patients are coming in.
It is a sub-group of our consultants’ group, which meets once a year. Do you envisage any extra burden on local authorities through their involvement in collecting data and supplying it in whatever format it will be collected in?
I suspect that the issue was raised with Liz Smith as part of the argument for extra scrutiny in the process to ensure that we are extra sure rather than in relation to the level of assurance that should give us confidence the first time round.
Paragraph 2 of schedule 2 amends section 75 of the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 and provides a power to the Court of Session to regulate the conduct of officers of court "in exercising their extra-official functions"and to "prescribe the procedure in relation to an appeal under section 82"of the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987.
With regard to the four amendments that I have lodged today, I apologise to Parliament that they had to be lodged in extra time—sorry—but the timing of the Government’s amendments left me no choice.
—to contribute a little bit more, so that over the next session of Parliament we can generate an extra £2 billion to invest in our national health service and our education system, and to mitigate Tory austerity.