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There are also plans to use hydrogen to fuel the heat and power. That will be produced by offshore wind—in somewhat controversial circumstances, as some of you will know.We are hoping to do two things—to make a big impact on people’s budgets and to make an impact on European policy.
When the consultation response was produced, we saw tables showing the number of witnesses who would be affected, the number of witnesses who would have to travel more than 10 miles and those who would have to travel less than 10 miles.
The sort of planting that Ms Beamish talked about is deciduous woodland, which produces dappled shade. Another product of that type of woodland is that leaf litter goes into the stream, is broken down and eventually ends up as food for fish.
A significant movement out of pillar 1 supports and into pillar 2 funding would mean that a lot of our producers could not viably go on. It gives us some concern when the UK articulates that as its core policy prior to negotiation.
That is an unbundled tendering process. We will see what that produces. We are doing that because we believe that we can get value for money and better service that way.
Last week, it was reported that 25 out of the 32 local authorities had produced biodiversity action plans. Do we know why not all local authorities have produced such plans?
First, we now have the Accounts Commission direction. Secondly, all councils were producing their individual public performance reports at the end of September and many local authorities will produce community planning performance reports of various types over the next month or so.
We may venture to think that the Scottish Parliament might want to mould its law along similar lines, perhaps by initiating legislation of its own that looks like legislation that has been produced in Europe. My colleagues will go into more detail on how the reporting-back system might operate.