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There is substantial support from stakeholders, including the NFUS, tenant farmers and the Scottish Crofting Federation, for the review; I believe that they continue to support it.
As an MSP, I am notified if a minister visits my region. Sometimes that happens a long time ahead of the visit and at other times it happens the day before.
Before we start, I put on record our thanks to the Lithuanian MPs, organisations and officials who met us during our short fact-finding visit to the beautiful and extremely clean city of Vilnius last week.
The level of danger and distress that those drugs cause to individuals is alarming. I visit prisons all the time and—I will put it this way—I had both the challenge and the privilege of seeing some footage of an individual who had consumed a substance.
It is an area in which “seeing is believing” is very true when you visit some of these projects. Iain Gulland talked earlier about individuals benefiting from reused or repaired products.
I whole-heartedly commend the work that they do. We look forward to that visit. Minister, some witnesses have said that there is a lack of detail in the bill on the accountability and monitoring framework.
Certainly, when I go to events such as smallholder festivals, or when I visit farms across the country, abattoir provision is one of the foremost issues that comes out every single time.