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I know that Christine Grahame is passionate about animal welfare and has pursued the matter for some time. The Scottish Government welcomes any proposal that seeks to improve animal welfare in Scotland.
We have continued to urge the UK Government to place greater emphasis on the impact on devolved budgets when considering the timing of its fiscal events.
Second, in the absence of competition the monopoly faces no incentive to innovate and improve its efficiency over time. From the point of view of the firm, a failure to innovate and improve efficiency will have little or no implication for the size of the market that it serves or the level of profit that it earns.
Emma Harper (substitute member) left the Committee on 20 February 2024 and was replaced by Karen Adam (substitute member) (5 March 2024 to date).
Meetings
The Committee met 32 times during the reporting period. Of these meetings, three were held entirely in private and 19 meetings included at least one item taken in private.
We have had a range of stakeholder views on the amount of information that is required in relation to the right to buy. That varies from a sheet of paper with no map to something that looks like a line on a map.