I heard it put diplomatically there that it is unclear what role the Scottish Government might have. That question would have to be addressed to the UK hosts of the conference.

I will move on to another theme. What lessons can the Scottish Government learn from not just COP but some of the climate justice issues that your organisations are raising about how to mainstream the things that the Government is doing in international development into all parts of government in Scotland?

On the basis of what you have just said, minister, would it be fair to say that this is an uncontentious piece of legislation?

It was interesting to hear the descriptions of the animal welfare problems that could arise from the 2020 act if we are not careful. Dr Turner mentioned ambitions for animal welfare. What might your ambitions be if we intend to keep pace with European legislation? Aquaculture has been mentioned, but what other ambitions might you have?

Dr Turner, you mentioned the perfect storm that might arise from the situation following Brexit. One of the issues, which you touched on, concerns trade deals. Will you give us more of your views on the implications that trade deals might have for the kind of meat that comes into the country and animal welfare standards? Will it be even more of a perfect storm if the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 has an impact on Scotland’s discretion to alter some of these things by its own hand?

I represent some islands, and I appreciate the fact that Kirsty Jenkins talked about treating islands exceptionally. She also spoke about the need to reduce food miles in the longer term. However, does she acknowledge that, on the islands, as in many other parts of Scotland, the whole lamb industry is built on livestock being moved around? To move a bit further down the evolutionary scale, the prawn industry is based on the live transport of prawns, as it is not possible to transport them in any other way, and somewhere in the region of 90 per cent of the market for prawns is in France and Spain. Does Kirsty Jenkins appreciate that, notwithstanding everything that she has just said, we have to be slightly careful when talking about reducing food miles, promoting local markets, and pretending that we can undo those realities any time soon?

In recent years, the Scottish Government has made substantial investment in affordable housing in the Western Isles. What can the Scottish Government do to encourage local delivery partners to ensure that rural areas in all local authorities are not left behind in relation to future building projects?

Despite, as we have seen, the severe consequences of a Covid case on board a CalMac ferry, earlier this month CalMac stated that compliance on mask wearing had dropped to around 50 per cent on some routes. I continue to hear anecdotal evidence about that. I appreciate that it is not the job of CalMac crews to enforce the law, but what more can be done to make ferry passengers—particularly those who are visitors, perhaps—aware of the law?

I have a general question, followed by a couple of very specific ones. My initial question is possibly for Alison Reeves and Lucy Casot.

Given what you have said about the importance of the arts, music and museums in the community, and given that we are going to be talking about a budget at some stage, do you feel that budgeting recognises the importance of mainstreaming the arts? I am not going to be the person who goes on record and says that we should be talking about what the NHS spends on the arts while we are in the middle of a Covid crisis. However, everybody recognises that, as you have said, the arts benefit health, town planning, business and the community. Do we budget in a way that is joined up enough to recognise those things?

I have a question for Alison Reeves. I declare an interest as an active participant—not very active at present, for obvious reasons—in a Gaelic choir.

I want to ask about some of the problems that Making Music has faced during lockdown, and how you are working to overcome them. A related issue, which has been brought to the Parliament’s attention in the past, concerns the need to ensure that we have a supply of music teachers in schools. I am sure that someone will correct me if I am wrong but, as I understand it, the majority of those teachers are coming through the private sector rather than the state sector.

It would be interesting to hear about those two issues. What has happened to music in the community, and what has happened to music in schools?

I appreciate that some of these issues will have been covered but, as Columbo would say, I have just one more question. It is possibly relevant to both witnesses.

Iain Munro mentioned the potential for inequalities to deepen as we come out of the experience of Covid. I am curious to know whether that means that you will have to rethink specifically what you do in your relationship with schools. That is where efforts to overcome inequality through public policy usually begin, although I suppose that they may begin pre-school.