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This is not a time when any sector in society will welcome extra financial burdens and I note that certain sectors have raised on-going concerns about the initiative’s financial impacts and how they will settle with other factors that affect their long-term financial planning.
Where a tenant’s rent is increased as a result of a rent adjudication, the tenant becomes liable to pay the landlord the extra amount that he or she would have been due to pay if the rent increase had not been delayed by the adjudication.
The work is under NHS management, but our staff’s property expertise and commercial skills provide an extra resource to take some very big sites forward.
If the person stays at home and just gets a few hours of extra visits, it will be Cordia, in Glasgow’s case, that will pay for somebody to provide that.
In this recession, I would not have put up VAT; I would have put something extra on income tax, because that would have hit the poorer people less hard.
It would appear to be cost effective for GHA to put resources and people into preventing absconds, given the extra costs of those houses being empty, no rent coming in, properties having to be refurbished and so on.
Would he please consider Edinburgh as a special case when it comes to extra funding? London gets extra funding because it is the capital of England—as I would say.
At stage 1, we were cognisant of the fact that we do not want to put extra burdens on local authorities at present and that putting extra financial burdens on local authorities could have an impact on the financial memorandum.