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Among the investment programmes of Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise, the R and D plus programme reputedly has a leverage of about 5:1 or 6:1—for every £1 of public money we put in, we leverage £5 or £6 of private sector money.
Since then over 30 local municipalities in seven US states have granted Rights of Nature ordinances.13Milam, R. (n.d.) Rights of Nature and our Responsibilities as Earth Community.
A couple of proposals that we are considering and lobbying for are the R and D tax credit—I am not sure whether you are familiar with that—the patent box and consortium relief, which would allow a larger company to work with a smaller company on a research project and recycle its tax.
For those who may not recall the details, let me quote:“In R v Andrews, the respondent had been acquitted of indecently assaulting and then raping SN, a girl of 15 who assisted at a summer camp run by his company.
However, the issue of special procedures and non-notification has been looked at by the House of Lords in R v H and C and it has been looked at again by the House of Lords in the appeal court this week, when there was an opinion regarding special advocates.
However, although I welcome the plans for tiered renewables obligation certificates for wave and tidal energy, I remain deeply concerned about what one developer told me was"a lack of any open source of R and D funding for marine renewables."
I do not want the committee to leave the meeting thinking that peer review is not the gold standard in any academic endeavour. It is research with a capital R. Okay. We have solved that one. I do not hold jackets for witnesses, although I have been known to hold them for committee members from time to time.You are about to tell me that you have another ques...