To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has offered money to local authorities to avoid the need for them to seek compensation from tenants as a result of the abolition of feudal tenure.

The Scottish Executive has not offered money to local authorities as a result of the abolition of the feudal system. The legislation does not permit them to seek compensation from tenants, but only from property owners who had the status before the act was commenced of "vassals" in relation to whose property the local authority was feudal superior.