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We have a huge amount of work progressing across the south of Scotland in hydrogen, hydrogen production and energy transition. We continue to produce 16 per cent of Scotland’s renewable energy, and we work closely with HIE on such aspects.
To give an example of one area of complexity, Glasgow city health and social care partnership recently produced a domestic abuse strategy, which makes 80 recommendations.
I know that COSLA is very supportive of many of the recommendations that we have produced. It is difficult for us to comment on where the work is likely to go.
I genuinely welcome the valuable work of the lead committee and the constructive series of recommendations that it has produced as a result of its scrutiny of the bill.
Farmers may well need those carbon credits to be able to continue to farm, because one thing is for sure: industries will force down to the primary producer their obligations to reach net zero.
We plan to take further evidence in the inquiry later this month and in our meetings in early March. We will then produce a report that is based on what we have heard, with recommendations for the Scottish Government.
As I said, the Scottish Funding Council is in the process of producing the academic year 2024-25 indicative allocations for both colleges and universities—last year it produced those in the spring—which will provide the detail that you are looking for about funded university places.
We need to have a much more inventive and creative way of thinking about governance, and we have to do that in a properly co-produced way. Dr Elder-Woodward, with regard to the panel, you said that you felt as if you were being “used” and that people had no voice.