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Is work being done to identify the houses that are easiest to deal with and to investigate how other houses might best be tackled? Are there some houses that the initiative might be unable to tackle?
At the last UK general election, the Labour party made a manifesto commitment to replace CCT with a system of best value. In 1999, the final report of the best value task force was published.
What mechanisms are in place to ensure that we are getting best value? Moreover, have you thought about the questions that have been asked about regulatory capital value?
It is not inconceivable that the judge who was best qualified to be appointed to the supreme court would come from Scotland, even if the court already had two Scots judges.
It requires them to reassess the costs involved in a particular course of action and whether it was and still is the best course of action to address the situation that they were trying to address.