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The committee’s next evidence session will take place on 26 May, when it will hear from representatives of the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute and from the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment.12:23 Meeting continued in private until 12:34.
Consideration of Late Objection Item 4 relates to consideration of an objection that was lodged after the objection period closed on 26 January 2010. All members have received a paper that sets out the circumstances that gave rise to the objection.
Mention of New Lanark takes me back to 1971, the bicentenary of Robert Owen, when a group of us visited the village in connection with a conference at the University of Strathclyde, to discover the buildings on the edge of collapse.
If people applied to have a session, we would of course agree, whatever the situation. As I said, people were often visited in Scotland if that was the preference, but sometimes the visits took place across the border somewhere else, so that they were truly anonymous.
In the 2010-11 academic year, the trust reached more than 70,000 children and there was a 20 per cent rise in school farm visits in Scotland.Across the Lothians, the trust organises, on average, 50 farm visits and 150 classroom visits each year.
The partnership agreements between the RSPB, NFUS and others is testament to the fact that we want to eradicate this abhorrent crime against our wildlife.There might be a case for new legislation but the consultation on the proposal for the SSPCA to have new enforcement powers will probably lead to better detection.
Concerns about holiday hunger were prevalent before the crisis, but they have become more acute now. I understand that, under the latest set of directives from the Scottish Government to local authorities, the requirement for local authorities to provide free school meals has been extended until the end of June.