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Members will not be surprised to hear that it is a big job. SPICe staff have put forward a proposal effectively to delegate the formulation and gathering of much of the information to local enterprise companies and others.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to introduce new measures to encourage Scottish consumers to buy Scottish beef. The Executive has no plans to introduce new measures but it will continue to support Quality Meat Scotland in their efforts to increase consumption of Scotch beef.
That is fine, but it is the kind of thing that should be covered in an information sheet, particularly for new members. That would be useful, because when members read the members' interests order, they could be confused about whether they are breaking rules.
Last year’s figures for VAT-registered companies indicate that around 64,500 of them are trading on the internet. Roughly 60,000 of these are buying online and 25,500 have websites in which customers can order products and services online.
The Scottish Executive neither encourages crofters to purchase their crofts nor discourages them from doing so. We believe the decision about buying is a matter for the individual crofter, who is best able to judge where the balance of advantage lies in his/her own case.