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Benchmarking enables people to work out whether councils are producing the services that they are required to produce at an acceptable level; it is not about how councils go about producing services.
I agree with the analysis about industrialisation and the move away from the emission-producing plants of yesteryear; they are exactly that—in the past.
Our key objectives throughout the negotiations are to ensure that the outcome enables Scotland to continue to be a key and leading food-producing nation, with the capacity on the ground to produce food, and to ensure that we have viable agriculture.
That is reflected in the paper that has been produced for this morning’s meeting. In my view, the question is almost totally irrelevant, for reasons that Richard Kerley—who may elaborate on this—exposed well in his article in yesterday’s edition of The Scotsman.
The definition in the 2003 act is complex and is used in a different legal context. To use it here would produce a highly uncertain result, so I invite the committee to agree to Government amendment 7 and to reject Patricia Ferguson’s amendments 72 and 108.
I do not think that the bill is seeking to replace the information that the health rights information Scotland project produces. It produces information for members of the public about their rights.