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When standards fail to meet the prescribed level of service, what specific penalties can be levied against the franchise holder? The member might be aware that we have the toughest auditing regime on these islands.
We have cost pressures, wage inflation, pension pressures in relation to teaching, national insurance changes and things such as the apprenticeship levy bowling down the track to us. Those are general pressures across the board; they do not simply relate to one discrete element of the cake.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has given any consideration to the possibility of introducing a levy on chewing gum and, if so, what conclusions it has reached.
Will she look again at that levy? It could help to fund third sector groups at local level to try and fight the issues caused by drink-related problems.
Time and again, I have heard that they provide people who want to understand what borrowing is or what the aggregates levy is with some of the best explanations that they have seen.
Ironically, family farms might be forced to sell up and become the property of the commercial investors that this policy is meant to target. There are levies with no impact assessment or engagement with farmers, which also completely fail to respect devolution because of a lack of engagement with the Scottish Government.
For this purpose, ministers were content to contribute £103 million of the fossil fuel levy moneys to the initial £3 billion capital for the Green Investment Bank.