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Last week, in the e-commerce debate, David Mundell spoke of the Egg internet banking service. It took 50 days to progress from the idea of the bank to its being up and running.
All that happened was that the shareholders sold some of their debt to the banks as part of the refinancing. So we owe our shareholders less money but we owe our banks more money.
How might the proper occupier proposals affect the lending of capital or money on the basis of croft ownership? Is there not a threat to banks and so on? Would they be as anxious to lend capital to proper occupiers?
In other words, is there a legal constraint on the money towards the bank loan? As both we and the bank are obviously concerned about the situation, the bank has set up a serviced account on which it has explicit rights to transfer sums from the account at its own request.
Therefore, if the committee accepts the amendment, I appeal to the minister to come back with a well-thought-out policy on holiday houses at stage 3. For consistency, I appeal to the committee to support the proposal on holiday houses.Amendments 360A and 364A make the same point.
The principal function of the website must be to sell Scotland—that is, to motivate people to holiday here. At that point, they are already committed to purchasing accommodation.By trying to sell accommodation to people who have not yet made any decisions about their holiday, eTourism Ltd is putting the cart before t...
There seemed to be a general feeling that public holidays in Scotland at this time of year are not necessarily the best idea, particularly for golfers such as Mr McLetchie and others who would, presumably, prefer better weather.
I am told that the Cabinet met here because Lloyd George was on holiday in Gairloch, which is a fantastic advert for the Scottish Tourist Board and holidaying in Scotland.