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As I said, the regulations have been worked up closely with the British Association for Shooting and Conservation, which has welcomed their introduction as being the best deal on offer. Obviously, that organisation is best placed to judge such issues.
Implementation of the policy was indiscriminate and uncontrolled, and it led to the best houses in the best areas being sold first, often to be sold on as second homes or for student lets.
In the secondary sector, some of our bigger secondary schools have by far the best results, but some of our very small secondary schools also have very good results.
The question that the committee could ask the minister is whether the indicators are the best for the purpose. It is the job of the Executive, not anybody else, to do reviews.
We felt that that would have led to a welter of such referrals and that that was not necessarily the best approach to take, hence the compromise position that we proposed in the draft designation order.