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General economic and market conditions are best considered at revaluation. The reforms that we have implemented in which we have moved from a five-year revaluation cycle to a three-year cycle, and from a two-year tone date to a one-year date, mean that valuations will be more reflective of prevailing market conditions.
Other colleagues are engaging on that matter, because my remit covers procurement specifically. To the best of my knowledge, there has been no movement to date, but, as you know, we are forever hopeful.
Certainly, in my interactions with stakeholders, there have been concerns that the regulations on conservation areas are not sufficiently robust and that there is significant opportunity to establish best practice, or at least to communicate where best practice is being achieved to other parts of the country.
We should not only reward nurses as best we possibly can, but ensure that those who are training to be nurses get all the support that we can possibly give them.