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I am grateful to Alasdair Allan for highlighting the importance of our local communities; as a former migration minister, I very much agree with that. Securing for the future the benefits that nature provides to people is at the heart of our efforts to stem the decline in biodiversity loss.
Given that the fishermen have in-depth knowledge of where the best fishing grounds are, when it comes to the next round of development of offshore wind farms would it not be more effective simply not to site new developments where such grounds have been identified?
(S5O-01012) I last met Michael Martin and David Climie of the Queensferry crossing construction team on Friday 19 May, when I visited the site to view the significant progress being made in the admittedly favourable weather conditions on that day.
That, quite simply, is not good enough. 17:26 I, too, thank Beth Morrison for her contribution and for the fact that we are debating the issue this evening.