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Is there a chance of me facing prosecution at a later date?” I imagine that you will seek to amend the bill to prevent a regulator or consenting body from being held liable for ecocide, but have you looked at the issue in enough depth to be confident that we could deal with it through amendments, which would have to be lodged quite quickly if the bill proc...
I do not know whether the committee has up-to-date information on complaints, such as how many are dealt with each year, how many emanate from the public and how many come from the police.
You talk about the need to define “trauma-informed practice”, but the legislation does not do that; it simply says that the Lord President will decide at a later date what those arrangements will be.
Unfortunately, the Scottish Government pushed very hard against that, so we have no examples of ecosystem-based FMPs in Scotland to date. It would be a requirement of any spatially managed area that we would introduce ecosystem-based fisheries management plans.
As I said, a commitment to keeping the Parliament up to date on EU law as it develops would be useful, particularly to this committee, so that it can assess what is happening.
As Mervyn King said before the committees of the House of Commons, the Bank of England is not just a bank of London; it is the bank of Scotland and the rest of the UK.
In 2011, there were 1.9 million people with any skills in Scots; this had increased to 2.4 million by 2022. For Gaelic, there were 87,000 people with any Gaelic language skills in 2011, this had increased to 130,000 by 2022.