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Such people do not see the matter as you have explained it, but I see where you are heading. People in the banking sector from Scotland who are sent to the Isle of Man to work have a fairly beneficial income tax rate, so their income in real terms has to be made up when they come back to Scotland.
It is aware of the restrictions, such as recess dates and when the office of the clerk is open, that the annual cycle puts on committees and the Executive, and that influences how the timetable is drawn up.
Further corroboration was provided by Jeremy Peat, the former chief economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland, who called for an objective assessment of more powers.
The Co-op brand is well known for campaigning on issues such as ethical banking, fair trade and so on. I would not have thought that there would be anything to stop any company from arguing for or against anything that it wants to.
For example, we looked at the way in which what is called the soil seed bank—the buried weed reservoir, which is a big reservoir of diversity—decays over time.
The World Wide Fund for Nature has been doing some interesting work on preventing nitrates getting into rivers—for example by keeping cattle up to 200 yd from river banks and by planting with plants that will take up nitrogen.