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The Scottish Government makes funding available to private woodland owners for rhododendron control projects under the Scottish rural development programme forestry grant scheme. To date, more than £340,000 of FGS funding has been committed.
On the specific issue, we have to date had no assurances from the UK Government on the future of the services, benefits or rights to which Scots are currently entitled as members of the EU and the single market.
I understand that the hospitality sector will be disappointed at not having a specific date today. As I said earlier, I hope that we can give a date during phase 2.
We need only consider the matter of categorisation today; we will return to matters of substance at a later date. The categorisation of all three instruments is that they are of low significance.
The committee previously approved the revised direction, and it is now required to approve the commencement date and transitional arrangements, which are set out in the cover note that members received.
The reasons for doing so are outlined by the Deputy First Minister in his letter to the Presiding Officer dated 24 August 2016 and relate to the halting of commencement of parts 4 and 5 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014.
Therefore, because of the timing, it did not have the advantage of either our up-to-date numbers or, in particular, the Government’s view on how we would achieve balanced budgets based on those up-to-date numbers.
Whose obligation would it be to keep the database up to date? It helps to start with a quality product in the first place, because it will have fewer faults.