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Is there an option for teachers to increase their pension contributions in order to buy earlier retirement? Teachers do not have an automatic right to early retirement before 60.
Is it correct that if an RSL with charitable status took on CIC status, the right to buy would have to be reintroduced, for example, whereas that right would currently not exist if an RSL had charitable status?
Members will be aware that there were debates about the right to buy in this context. One amendment to the Housing (Scotland) Bill proposed that the right to buy should not apply to homes with adaptations.
In the private sector or commercial world, there is a wonderful expedient to address those issues—it is called the balance sheet. Assets are posted to the balance sheet, where their value can be seen.
People could take his opinion, and he could give guidance and fact sheets. The only problem that I have with that suggestion is that we would be dealing with the petition, rather than handing it on.
To say that farmers must, before they can even start to go down that road, identify someone who will buy their stock, is asking them to do something that is nigh impossible.
That will be so especially if the right to buy—to which housing associations are totally opposed because it takes stock out of the public sector—is removed.
As part of our arrangement with that party, the promoter has looked into buying up that piece of land, which might in turn be offered in a land swap arrangement or commercial deal with NCP or Norwich Union as an area to relocate however many spaces might be lost as a result of the tramway.