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The response suggests that that was our fault for having been closed over the Christmas period. I think that the holidays that we took at Christmas were probably the same public holidays that others took, including Executive officials.
The point is that land was trusted to working people; in that sense, the huts cannot be compared to holiday homes. The intention was to make provision for holiday homes, but the land was set aside for people who could not otherwise afford to go on holiday.
It would be a good move to require the Bank of Scotland and the Royal Bank of Scotland, which I understand have about three quarters of personal banking business in Scotland, to make the same arrangement with the Post Office card account.
I understand the rationale behind Mr Gorrie's question. As he will know, bankholidays in Scotland are fairly consistent, although some differences exist in specific local areas.
They are, in effect, the same amendment in that they all seek to remove the new year's day holiday, either by removing it from the bill completely or by delaying its implementation until an unspecified date.
The Executive would state that the act will apply as from a date in the future, rather than from a date in the past by which lawyers had already acted and done everything.
When that decision was conveyed to us, we had £100,000 in the bank; over the following six weeks, we had to generate £4.4 million out of that £100,000.
This is a decrease in both cash (-0.5%) and real (-2.1%) terms compared to £21.2 million in the 2023-24 budget.
In 2022 Scottish voluntary sector spending was £8.8bn compared to £7.9bn in 2021, an increase of almost £1bn.