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As a matter of practice, officials try to avoid and minimise laying an instrument late, but it is right that we should be held to account by the committee and explain what happened and why.
That is a different type of duty, but it is still a principal duty on the Scottish ministers to promote forestry and to take account of the various outcomes that forestry can contribute to.
They do not respect the requirement contained in section 28(2) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 that at least 28 days should elapse between the laying of an instrument that is subject to the negative procedure and the coming into force of that instrument.