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As the cabinet secretary says, there will be many issues on which the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Government would never consider using the power.
With regard to delivering the measures, we currently recommend measures for households based on a model, an assessment procedure and EPCs that, in many cases, particularly for traditional or remote rural properties in Scotland, are inaccurate.
It has just become so clunky, with so many of them. Of course, once we have put in place a relief, an exemption or an extension to something, it is politically very hard to claw that back.