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Everyone who works on the committee does an excellent job; it has been a real privilege to be part of it over the past year. I wish the committee all the best in its future deliberations. Thank you very much, Jamie.
There is no one in London seeking to take control of crofting legislation because, under the devolution settlement, that rests here, as it should. This Parliament is the best place to deal with those issues.
It started out by focusing on ad hoc mechanisms, taking the traditional approach, but there is a movement towards more structure as the department learns how others do it and looks at best practice elsewhere. I probably cannot give a definitive answer to your question, but the direction of travel in policy terms looks promising.
Even in a system in which everything was reviewed, with the best will in the world, and in which only a small percentage of decisions were wrong, if they did not have support and did not appeal, they could lose out on a significant amount of money.
I will take a different focus and ask the witnesses what parts of the 2002 act work or, even, work well. One of the best bits is that it is applicant blind.
How do we create the circumstances where they do get used and get used in the right way, with the best of intentions and to make a blinking—excuse me—difference?
We would normally apply a figure of around 10 per cent, but I am not sure that that is applicable in the circumstances. Will you have your best go at explaining what that might mean for Scottish tax revenues?