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I am grateful for that.I take the opportunity of our discussion to return to personal licences, which do not strictly come under the bill, but about which we had an exchange before the recess. The matter has been the subject of quite a lot of publicity in the press recently.
Would accelerating things help in this recessionary period? If the recession lasts two to four years, will you not be at the stage of doing the majority of your capital maintenance by then?
However, business rates currently account for just 2 per cent of turnover for the largest retailers, and even during the recession the supermarkets have reported higher profits.
ROS has indicated to us that it will continue to keep its fees under regular review and that it will act should the position change because the recession has a deeper impact than is currently anticipated.In summary, ROS incurred a large operating deficit in 2008-09 and forecasts more deficits in future.
Although the event was scheduled for October, we started to flag it up early, in the summer recess. We reinforced the point that equalities is one of the Parliament's founding principles and we crystallised matters by providing practical examples of fairness issues to which members could relate.
We have dealt with 60 amendments in less than an hour, which is a testament to the amount of work that was done in advance of stage 2.I do not think that we know when stage 3 will take place; it will not be in the first week after the recess. Meeting continued in private until 11:57.
We have a track record, throughout the recession, in dealing with Vestas, Barclaycard, the Schering-Plough situation, the Rosyth to Zeebrugge ferry and HEROtsc in Larbert.