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They are designed to address the acquisitive crime that such offenders commit and have a certain proven success.Probation with treatment is slightly lower tariff and less intensive than DTTOs. One differentiator to date, for example, has been that DTTOs require the offender to attend four-weekly hearings with the sentencing sheriff.
Some organisations have lobbied against the use of enabling powers that would allow us to do one or another or everything that the bill mentions at a future date; they say that we should do those things right now.
I reiterate that ACPOS does not wish to delay the process in any way, but we wish there to be, at some future date, a single piece of stand-alone legislation that covers all hate crime, whether it involves aggravators and/or criminal offences.
Only if the house were bought by someone who had the intention of renting it out privately at a later date, which in my view would be against the ethos of someone who would want to buy a social rented house in the first place.
We are discussing with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities the arrangements for and principles of the allocation of that funding, but I am happy to bring the committee up to date with current thinking.I will also be pleased to discuss regulation since the abolition of Communities Scotland.
We are in exactly the same position as Howard Marshall—we have carried out only insulation work to date. We have been asked by one local authority to look at managing the central heating programme that it has been asked to undertake, to back up Scottish Gas.
Given the situation with the existing bridge, which we will come to shortly, is there any possibility of an earlier start date and earlier legislation to allow that to happen?
Given that it will take time to do that and to work up an acceptable methodology, and that only then will you really be able to start cutting regulations and seeing whether you are getting near the 25 per cent target, how realistic is 2012 as a target date for that 25 per cent reduction? The work that is being done in that area is of a high priority, and si...