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My understanding from speaking to the team yesterday is that it is planning on those publications coming out ahead of summer recess. There is quite a difference between summer recess 2025 and autumn 2024—that is nearly a year.
It gives me great pleasure to kick off for the Scottish Conservatives in the first debate after the recess. We have to be honest: there is a mountain of work still to do in this area before we get it right.
As is noted in the Scottish Government’s discussion paper that was published before the February recess, many businesses have expressed concerns about the impact that is already being felt—concerns that are rightly shared by the SNP Government.
The unilateral decision would be the revoking of article 50, through Westminster, before the date of exit. That means that there would need to be a clear decision by the Houses of Parliament not to leave the European Union.
More generally, by definition, all climate change plans are out of date almost as soon as they are written, because the policy landscape changes and public budgets, technologies and modelling all change.
Ministers must now provide Parliament with the date for publication, confirm that protections will remain in place and explain how further delay and expense will be avoided.