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Can the minister confirm that the pockets of crofting land to be allocated for housing will come under pre-legislative scrutiny and consultation and will be included in the up-to-date development plans proposed in the new planning bill?
The concerns about piercing, tattooing and cosmetic surgery have not been borne out to date. There have been no investigations since the passing of the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985, 20 years ago.
There have been complaints about members and some of those complaints have received a lot of attention—particularly in the press—but complaints that have been considered to date by the committee have not been about the probity of members.
However, I know that there is regular contact between colleagues in Edinburgh and colleagues in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London to ensure that it has up-to-date promotional materials for Scotland that it can distribute through its network.
Local authorities should not have to think twice about that, but I suspect that that is not the case; I suspect that local authorities sometimes do not have up-to-date records of who the secretaries of community councils are.
Clearly, there has been a welter of research into the impact of wildfowl ingestion of lead shot, dating back to as long ago as 1983, when the study "The incidence and significance of ingested lead pellet poisoning in British wildfowl" was published.