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Do you agree that state aid rules could have a significant impact on the ability of any Scottish Government to deliver in many areas of devolved competence, including regional investment, agriculture and fisheries?
It might be helpful if I address a few of them very briefly this morning. Many stakeholders have asked how and when we intend to commence the bill’s provisions and, in particular, when the power in section 3 will be commenced.
When you are working on something as broad and involving as many organisations, as much money and as many instances of claims as we are talking about here, there will always be a percentage that is problematic.
That was got rid of because of the amount of time that the agency spent on reviews when cases were going to appeal anyway. So many cases fail at mandatory reconsideration.
It is clear that there are competing demands and pressures on the budget, but we have managed to protect many of the critical spending lines in our portfolio.
When it came to the committee, lo and behold there was not.Criterion C is:“which does not have significant financial implications”.How many of us have sat in a committee, taking evidence at stage 1, and said, “Wait a wee minute.