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It is not that my constituents, perversely, want to buy cars they cannot afford; they have no option but to buy a car—sometimes two—that they cannot afford and which are often less fuel efficient because they cannot afford a new car.
Those figures are reinforced by the work done by SPICe on behalf of Wendy Alexander.That information is rather at odds with the picture painted by some in the debate.
I would not be opposed to that. The question is whether SPICe is able to undertake a desk exercise on whether research has been carried out, to enable us to decide whether the committee needs to take evidence directly.
We could consider the matter, but it is more difficult to give guidance on a huge area than it is just to say that SPICe has the facility and anyone can ask for the contacts that they want.
Dr Turner also has some questions about logistics reform. Is the NHS thinking about buying drugs and appliances in the same way that one might buy spare car parts?
Is he aware that Inverclyde community safety partnership obtained in excess of £100,000 from the Executive to buy a mobile closed-circuit television unit, which has been hidden away for 10 months and will continue to be hidden away because Inverclyde Council will not fund its operation?
The letter refers to a better form of tracking. We might simply want to buy into the Executive's tracking if it can reflect the number of times that instruments have been modified.
To ask the minister whether the Scottish Executive has made any attempt to have returned to CalMac the ferry sold at rock-bottom price to Sea Containers Ltd on the order of Michael Forsyth, then Secretary of State for Scotland. No; we have not attempted to buy that ferry back. The £20 million investment in new ferries this year has been our priority.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all its departments, agencies and non-departmental public bodies bulk buy energy on a Scotland-wide basis and, if not, what efficiency schemes are in place to reduce the costs of energy purchase.
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Date answered:
20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many socially rented housing units have been lost to that form of tenure (a) by right to buy, (b) by demolition or (c) for any other reason in each year since 1980, broken down by local authority area.