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Rural Support (Simplification and Improvement) (Data Publication) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/274)
Welcome back. Our next item of business is consideration of a negative instrument. Do members wish to make any comments on the instrument?
Constituents have raised a broader concern with me, which is that there is a sense that there has been a bit of tinkering around the edges of existing schemes rather than the transformational change that was promised in the vision for agriculture.
The Government has failed to deliver its initial plan of a menu of measures for tier 2 of agriculture reform, and stakeholders have raised with me that the changes are a very poor alternative. They have raised questions on the Government’s ability to deliver better outcomes for nature and climate through stronger conditionality. I want to put on the record that people are raising concerns that we are not getting into the agricultural vision space.
I do not believe that that is pertinent to the negative instrument that is before us. Further instruments may come forward, but your point does not directly relate to this instrument, which makes, in effect, a very small amendment to the way in which data is published.
As there are no other comments, I assume that everybody is content.
That concludes the public part of our proceedings.
11:18 Meeting continued in private until 11:38.