…the blog and website of Andy Wightman
Just last week, I was discussing the question of Donald Trump’s golf course with a senior Scottish politician. He was curious as to whether I thought it was actually going to be completed. I said that I doubted it and
Continue readingMy report on Donald Trump’s golf course is now published.
Continue readingOK, In 2007, I prepared a paper on proposals for land reform in the 3rd session of the Scottish Parliament. The SNP Government did nothing. Last month I wrote another paper for Scottish Community Alliance on the way ahead for
Continue readingUPDATE 9 April 2011 Actually, the error I identify below (over-estimate of LVT revenue by £123 million) doesn’t look like an error on further examination. The land values in my original report were from January 2009 (the Valuation Office) and
Continue readingI watched Roseanna Cunningham giving evidence to Rural Affairs Committee on 2 March in response to research that the Committee had commissioned into the operation of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003. She was clearly up for radical change to
Continue readingThe Scottish Affairs Committee of the House of Commons has announced its intention to hold an Inquiry into the Crown Estate in Scotland. Further details have yet to be announced. Labour has tabled Amendments in House of Commons to Scotland
Continue readingBelow is the video of my evidence session at the Scottish Affairs Committee of the House of Commons yesterday, 9 February 2011. My evidence starts at 16:13:30 [link broken July 2024]
Continue readingThis meeting of the Scottish Affairs Committee on 2 February 2011 contains interesting evidence from Professor Sir Kenneth Calman and Professor Jim Gallagher relating to the Crown Estate from 15:33 to 15:44. A written transcript is not yet available (9
Continue readingThe future of the Crown Estate was a topic of discussion in the Scotland Bill Committee of the Scottish Parliament on 3 February 2010. Giving evidence were Michael Moore, Secretary of State for Scotland, Roger Bright, Chief Executive of the
Continue readingThe Scottish Government has published its formal response to the Scotland Bill in a series of letters available here. [original link archived – letters mentioned will be somewhere here – July 2024] Of particular interest is its response on the
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