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The current extension caused by the delay in introducing the countryside stewardship scheme creates a further welcome window of opportunity for new crofters and farmers to enter the existing ESA scheme.
Under-age smoking and drinking is, of course, nothing new. Children smoke and drink for all sorts of reasons; some do so to show their independence, others do it because their friends do.
I wish to address the membership of the new committee. On the list are a local authority chief executive— Let us have a question straight away, please.
For two months now, the Parliament has heard repeated assurances from the First Minister about his desire for a protocol with the Home Office to govern the operation of enforcement home visits, which are otherwise known as dawn raids.
On evidence, we should try to probe the extent to which the new FEDS has driven the new allocations over the summer, given that those allocations will set the budget for the next three years.
There must be an increase in the physical capability of the system to move the megawatts from the new wind farms in Scotland to the demand centres in England and Wales.