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First, £68 a week is the threshold below which contributions cannot be levied. The £68 figure can be amended upwards in regulations, but the bill specifies the starting point.
I say that having made robust representations to the SLCC that resulted in its reducing the levy by £40 for each solicitor in Scotland, which resulted in a saving of £0.5 million for the profession.
I welcome the certainty of the development of offshore wind energy technology in Fife.The answer must also lie in retrieving the moneys that the Treasury rules have tied up, preventing us from developing the kinds of energy that I am talking about. The moneys from the fossil fuel levy and the landfill levy are tied u...
Our thoughts are not that the licence fee should be increased—we think that it is probably high enough and we do not want to deter the provision of accommodation for single people—but that there should be an income stream coming from the use of fines levied on transgressors. At the moment, those fines go to the Exchequer, because the whole process is carrie...
When people move into sheltered accommodation, it is crucial that they are secure in the knowledge that the accommodation will continue and that charges will be levied at the same level by the sheltered accommodation provider.
Now that we have PAN 74 on affordable housing, everybody knows that affordable housing is a requirement—a material planning consideration—that will be levied at a rate of about 25 per cent throughout Scotland.
The police have the ability, under various pieces of legislation, to levy charges for policing major events, such as rock concerts or football matches, and to receive income from it.
Under section 9, factors that are deregistered or that fail to register will not be able to recover charges and costs that they have levied or incurred from owner-occupiers.
The point in our submission is quite narrow and relates to section 5(2)(b), which concerns practitioners not levying charges or making income that might raise suggestions of a conflict of interest.