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I think this is in part because of the legislative history, but also because there is a difference in treatment between MSPs (accountable to the Parliament) and councillors (accountable to the Standards Commission).
However, a criticism of them is that they do not take account of the ability to pay—at least the ability based on income—whereas income tax does take the ability to pay into account.
It is interesting that the bill documents say that the bill is not so much about taking account of capacity, yet the age of criminal responsibility is entirely about capacity, and we should take that into account.
That should be one of the things that the local authority takes into account. I reiterate the importance in a rent pressure zone of the limit on rent increases applying to prospective as well as sitting tenants in any property.
Separate places for rests and breaks would mean that the guys would be off road—the lay-bys on most trunk roads are not suitable for breaks—so that would be a holistic approach.