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Those communities have received bad news, but, in the past year, Shetland and elsewhere have been given the good news that, after decades of decline, the population of the Highlands and Islands is increasing.
One is the new framework or so-called basic regulation, which deals with the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fishing resources and the framework of the CFP.
The bill talks about establishing prostitution tolerance zones, but I understand that the Leith and Aberdeen experiments managed existing situations and did not create new zones. The attempt to create a new zone in the Lothians failed.
That has not been articulated as well as it should have been, and we hope that the new strategy document will provide a framework that enables that to be taken into account more effectively.
However, those who would like to become involved in that appear to have no confidence in the system that would enable them so to do.Can the minister explain why there seems to be little demand to use the new system? What action will the minister take to make the new system more acceptable to those who wish to let lan...