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The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 17 July 2025
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Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee

Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 2 February 2022

Finlay Carson

Okay. We have a supplementary question from Ariane Burgess.

Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee

Decision on Taking Business in Private

Meeting date: 2 February 2022

Finlay Carson

Good morning, and welcome to the fourth meeting in 2022 of the Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee. I remind everyone who is using electronic devices to switch them to silent.

Our first item of business is a decision on whether to take items 5 and 6 in private. Do members agree to do so?

Members indicated agreement.

Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee

Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 2 February 2022

Finlay Carson

Under agenda item 2, we are continuing our evidence sessions on the Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill. I welcome our first panel, who will focus on policy outcomes relating to environment and sustainability. With us today are Iain Gulland, executive director and chief executive officer of Zero Waste Scotland; Dr Mike Rivington, land use system modeller at the James Hutton Institute; Dr Kirsteen Shields, lecturer in international law and food security at the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security; and Vicki Swales, head of land use policy at RSPB Scotland, who is representing Scottish Environment LINK.

We have about 90 minutes for questions. I will kick off. What are your experiences of the food system and the issues that Scotland faces in that system with regard to the environment, waste and related issues? I will go to each member of the panel. I would like Dr Rivington also to expand on experiences during the pandemic and how those might inform our approach to food policies in the event of further environmental shocks. However, we will start with Iain Gulland.

Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee

Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 2 February 2022

Finlay Carson

Our second panel on the Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill will focus on policy outcomes relating to public health. I welcome Dr Isabel Fletcher, a senior research fellow a the University of Edinburgh; Claire Hislop, the organisational lead for diet, physical activity and healthy weight at Public Health Scotland; Jill Muirie, the public health programme manager at Glasgow Centre for Population Health; and Jo Teece, a project manager at the British Dietetic Association.

We have until approximately 12:10 for questions. I will kick off. What is your understanding of what is meant when we talk about a good food nation? Do you agree that the bill as drafted will enable Scotland to achieve that ambition?

Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: 2 February 2022

Finlay Carson

Item 4 is consideration of a negative instrument. I refer members to paper 4. No motion to annul the instrument has been lodged.

Members will note that the instrument breaches the rule that requires Scottish statutory instruments to be laid at least 28 days before they come into effect. The Scottish Government’s letter to the Presiding Officer states that the breach is

“due to the need to act urgently to avoid an economic loss to farmers by not accepting additional cuts of pigmeat into the scheme.”

I note that we wrote to the Scottish Government with questions when we originally considered the pigmeat scheme instrument, but we have yet to receive a response.

Does any member have any comment on the instrument?

Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: 2 February 2022

Finlay Carson

We can write to the Scottish Government to ask it for clarification on that.

Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: 2 February 2022

Finlay Carson

Are members content to note the instrument?

As no member has disagreed, the committee is content.

That concludes our public business.? We now move into private session to continue our agenda.

12:19 Meeting continued in private until 12:57.  

Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee

Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 2 February 2022

Finlay Carson

We have a short supplementary from Jim Fairlie.

Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee

Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 2 February 2022

Finlay Carson

Are you suggesting that the right to food should be incorporated in the bill or that it should be dealt with in other legislation? I do not think that you made that clear.

Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee

Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 2 February 2022

Finlay Carson

I suppose that the question is about where the limit is. Should it be only local authorities and health boards or are there other public bodies that should be described as relevant authorities?