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To ask the Scottish Executive when it will announce its intentions for the future of the moratorium on fish quota transfers between Scotland and England.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any planned legislation to control the ship-to-ship transfer of oil in open waters, such as the Firth of Forth, will allow the continued ship-to-ship transfer of oil in sheltered harbours such as Sullom Voe.
There is a big variation between companies that have improved their systems and, on the other side of the coin, companies that might not have been able to do that.
Further, since 2006-07, the number of days that have been lost through sickness in Scotland has dropped from 3.7 million to 2.2 million—that is a drop of 42 per cent, compared with a drop of 26 per cent in the UK. What is driving that?
Has it been easier for them to progress their community plans and focus on local needs compared with the other 26 CPPs? We have looked at one CPP that has a coterminous boundary.
If we take Sheriff Lockhart’s recommendations, we can see that much has been achieved—the 2005 act, recent care home guidance and the revision to the firelaw website—but there is more that we can do.