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I note from Malcolm Chisholm's response of 26 January to a question from Elaine Smith that the Executive will have spent around £954,000 over five years on the promotion of breastfeeding—it proposes to spend £230,000 this year.
I am trying to explain where my head is and not simply ask a question. It is the other side of the coin that worries me—about our pushing out the boundaries of what we ask members to declare.
What would happen in that situation? That is catered for. Section 26 of the bill says:"Information is exempt information if its disclosure by a Scottish public authority … is prohibited by or under an enactment".The individual prohibition wins out.
Town and Country Planning (Limit of Annual Value) (Scotland) Order 2005(SSI 2005/594)Fishery Products (Official Controls Charges) (Scotland) Regulations 2005(SSI 2005/597) No substantial points arise in relation to these instruments.
The Subordinate Legislation Committee is happy with this one—and it is a much more difficult committee to satisfy than we are. I thank the Executive officials for their attendance.
The members of the committee then have the opportunity to question me in public on it, and my answers are in the Official Report. The questioning of accountable officers is in public and the final report is in public.