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We have not said that we are opposed to communities having a right of pre-emption. The issue is that the traditional use of the right of pre-emption was in order to match a received bid by making the sale of land openly known and so attracting other bids.
Pre-school Children (Health Checks) To ask the Scottish Executive what plans there are to change the arrangements for health checks of pre-school children by health visitors.
I have also advised that in terrorist investigations it would be inappropriate to have in Scotland powers and periods of pre-charge detention that are different from those in the rest of the UK.
Let me put the record straight: 9,000 children are not being denied pre-school education. The take-up rate for pre-school education is now 96 per cent for four-year-olds and 85 per cent for three-year-olds.
Consultation on exempt groups
A successful Scottish Government amendment introduced a requirement to consult on which categories of people would be exempt. Without pre-empting that consultation, the Cabinet Secretary suggested that this might include people whose benefit had recently been reviewed.
The Bill and the increased ambition in emission reduction targets was essentially a response to the 2015 Paris climate agreement and the international commitment to ‘pursue efforts’ to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C, and to keep them ‘well below’ 2.0C above those recorded in pre-industrial times.
The Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform (ECCL...