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I do not know what kind of answer we will get from local councils, but perhaps we should try to ask the relevant local councils, which would no doubt include Argyll and Bute Council, what they think of the petition.
We should look at the bills that they face in just three weeks’ time: Stobo Castle will get a £25,000 increase in its bill; Prestonfield House in Edinburgh will get a 70 per cent increase; and the Queens Hotel in Lerwick will have to pay 65 per cent more.
As Nigel Don said, a fatal accident inquiry might have difficulty in getting the information that it requires from other countries, which might be reluctant to provide it.
Will anyone with that level of disposable income get concessions? It will mean that people with a disposable income of £25,000 will have to make a sizeable contribution.
The proposal reflects a difficulty that the European and External Relations Committee has: as soon as it gets into any substantive issue other than one that is simply about the processes within the European Union, it cuts across the remit of some other committee.
I am conscious of time, so I invite members of the committee to ask brief questions. We will try our best to get through them in the next seven or eight minutes.