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Since 2008, both prices and activity have been very volatile. Not only are actual receipts volatile, as the convener pointed out, but the OBR’s forecasts of tax receipts are volatile.
We support the Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance’s definition of independent advocacy and the practice around it, working alongside the principal standards and codes of practice. That is important to protect the practice of independent advocacy and to define it correctly.
The provision of inventories is already common practice in the private rented sector, and, in instances in which a letting agent deals with a tenancy check-in, it is a requirement under the code of practice unless otherwise agreed in writing with the landlord.
As I think we have said in previous evidence, it is time to look at the MSPs’ code of conduct and the ministerial code in this context, because I do not think that they have been reviewed for a while.
Amendment 28 should be resisted and I do not support it.I turn to the amendments in the name of Liam McArthur on the code of practice. I am aware that there is some anxiety about what the code might cover.