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Agenda item 1 is to agree to take in private agenda items 4 and 5, which are to look at our petition signature process and the forthcoming work programme for the new year. Are colleagues content to do that?
Before we begin, I remind everyone using electronic devices to please switch them to silent. We welcome to the meeting our new member, Emma Roddick, who replaces Kate Forbes.
On the record—officially and in public—I welcome Oliver Mundell MSP to the committee as a new member. Oliver, do you have any relevant interests to declare?
Deputy Convener The second item on our agenda is the election of a new deputy convener. The Parliament has agreed that only members of the Scottish National Party are eligible for nomination as deputy convener of this committee.
I invite members who wish to ask a supplementary question to press their request-to-speak buttons during the relevant question. Members will be aware of the new time limits; as they will be rigorously applied, brevity in questions and responses will be welcome.
What would you say to those local authorities whose budgets are coming up soon and whose capital plans contain new care homes? Why on earth should a local authority keep a new care home in its capital plan when the bill is causing so much uncertainty?
I know that we now have an amalgamated college, but I hope that none of them has transferred to the new body. You would need to take up that question with New College Lanarkshire and the funding council.
To date, Scotland has made good progress in cutting its emissions, with a 28 per cent reduction between 1990 and 2009—the latest year for which data is available.