MSPs back right-to-buy plan From: The Scotsman | Date: November 13, 2002| Author: Fordyce Maxwell | Copyright 2002 The Scotsman. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

IT SEEMS increasingly likely that the rural development committee taking evidence on the Agricultural Holdings Bill will recommend absolute right-to-buy for tenant farmers who hold existing secure tenancies.

That became clear yesterday when, for the third session in succession, questions from the committee members concentrated on right-to-buy.

Not so much the pre-emptive right proposed in the draft Bill, which would give secure tenants under the 1991 Act first refusal if their ...

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