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Interpretation of the enabling legislation, the Non-Domestic Rates (Levying) (Scotland) (No. 3) Regulations 2010, is a matter for each local authority.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the level of charge that a local authority can levy on the submission of (a) outline and (b) full planning applications is set by regulation and, if so, when the regulations were last updated.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 April 2008
This new fund provides a higher level of resources for community initiatives compared to the Aggregates Levy Community Environmental Renewal Scheme from 2002 to 2008.
I am sure that, even if her leader is not, Sarah Boyack is fully behind the attempt by Scotland to reclaim the £182 million fossil fuel levy denied to us by her party over the past six years.
We do not necessarily have the relevant tax-raising powers, which is why the carrier bag levy was a levy and not a tax. However, I am conscious that, at the moment, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs at Westminster is also thinking about some of the same areas, so there may be conversation...
We will be able to make an assessment in the relative context of the remaining levy control framework funds. Therefore, there is a potential policy tension.
OPITO raised concerns this week that the way that the Scottish Government plans to use the funds raised in Scotland from the new apprenticeship levy will take money out of training in oil and gas.