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Do councils have the resources to monitor all of that? It seems quite a big extra workload. From my experience of talking to folks who deliver HEEPS ABS programmes in local authorities and some of the other energy efficiency schemes, there are folks who are really expert in all of this in many places.
If they were accessible, tourism in the Europe could support an extra 3.4 million jobs. Thankfully, Scotland and the UK do well in comparison with other destinations in Europe.
Over and above that, in pillar 2 we are putting in extra resource for agri-environment schemes, which were announced as part of the consultation process, and substantial extra resource for restoring peatlands, which is an important measure.
If all the spare time is used up for back benchers, those of us who wind up unfortunately find ourselves with no extra time at all. However, today we have managed to manufacture the luxury of extra time.
As such, there is no right to unilateral secession, meaning secession can only come about by consent or “extra-constitutionally”.5Scottish Parliament. (2025).