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When you say that crofters who have bought their crofts should be treated as any other landowners, are you saying that they should not receive the extra grants that are available to crofters?
We must say, “Okay—you want to do that, but how are you going to compensate for those extra emissions? What additional thing will you implement over and above what we already have?”
If that agreement takes the extra bureaucracy away, that is definitely responding to the representations we have had on behalf of smaller Scottish businesses in those sectors.
We have heard from other sectors that smaller firms have to employ more staff or that extra levels are being added to their bureaucracy or administrative costs, and that managing that has been relatively prohibitive for their progress.
The question, crudely put, might be this: would people be prepared to pay an extra 30p if they get improvements in a river, a cleaner beach or whatever?