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The legal review focused on the issues that were highlighted through the consultation, such as the accessibility of the legislation and how it has impacted on the understanding of the rights of small landholders and landlords; how security of tenure is key to all small landholders; and issues to do with access to funding and banking. The issues that emerged...
I encourage members to focus on that in the way that the Government has done.European Commissioner for Competition Policy (Bank Divestment Meetings) European Commissioner for Competition Policy (Bank Divestment Meetings) To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the European Commissioner for Competition Policy concerning the proposed divestment of the Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group.
Does the funding guarantee cover payments under multi-annual agreements with land managers that are to be made after 2022? The funding guarantee covers pillar 1 and pillar 2 and does so right up until 2022.
I thought the overseas challenge sounded quite nice. I could go on holiday and pay the equivalent into Marie Curie, but then I realised that I would have to go on holiday to run, cycle, walk or hike, and I thought, “I’m not doing that either.”
She was constantly held to a different standard from that to which others were held—on time off in lieu, holidays and time off for compassionate leave or medical reasons.
After I had signed the member’s motion, a constituent wrote to me to express concern about it, suggesting that it may be an “exercise in futurism reminiscent of the predictions made in the 1960’s that we would now be having holidays on the moon”. I do not think that any of us have had a holiday on the moon—at least...
We should not be going through that in 2022, 2023, 2024 or going forward. We can tackle rural loneliness with better public transport and better ways in which people can get around.