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Will Alasdair Allan tell me what would be positive for his fishermen about rejoining the common fisheries policy? The member may not quite understand that interventions work on the opposite principle to the one that he thinks they do.
More recently, a consultation was launched in May this year, and the results from that will inform the 2023 national improvement framework and improvement plan.
Although I accept that right now—in the midst of a pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis—may not be the time to have a full and frank conversation about tax rates more generally, we will need to do that in the near future, before that potential funding gap hits us.