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Since 2008, both prices and activity have been very volatile. Not only are actual receipts volatile, as the convener pointed out, but the OBR’s forecasts of tax receipts are volatile.
The sexual orientation and religion questions are voluntary, because that is in effect hard-coded into the primary legislation. It was left to an exercise of subordinate legislation powers to make the trans question voluntary, so the 2019 act paved the way for getting to where we are.
I had long and detailed discussions with the Taiwanese authorities about the lot codes on Scotch whisky bottles. A key concern for the industry in exporting to Taiwan is to ensure that those lot codes remain intact and sacrosanct.
As I think we have said in previous evidence, it is time to look at the MSPs’ code of conduct and the ministerial code in this context, because I do not think that they have been reviewed for a while.