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The poor performance from the minister in this matter cannot be overstated, and the discussion in committee demonstrated that. To date, pursuing the bill has cost the taxpayer £30 million—money that has been wasted due to the incompetence of the minister and the SNP.
I would like to see that as an outcome, and I would like to see more transparency about how that process has worked, because to date our members have not seen that transparency.
—Official Report, Economy and Fair Work Committee, 25 May 2022; c 30. If a council wants to undertake work on a building, it needs to show that it has a plan for that building, that the work is in the public interest and that it can afford it.
There are a number of issues with the regulations, one of which is that giving an exact date is not always possible. For example, if someone reported a lost item to the police, they would say that it was lost or stolen between this date and that date.
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22 February 2022
I have a suspicion that, although the bill does not explicitly provide for banking and borrowing, there is in effect a banking mechanism in the provisions for setting up carbon accounts.