This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
Today, we are joined by Mairi Gougeon, who is the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and the Islands, Brittany Brown, who is policy lead for new national parks, and Lisa McCann, who is head of biodiversity, at the Scottish Government.
I refer members to paper 1. I welcome to the meeting Siobhan Brown, the Minister for Victims and Community Safety, and Mr Jim Wilson, licensing team leader at the Scottish Government’s criminal justice division.
Rather than being a vibrant, colourful place, it is a brown, flat substrate underneath a grey sea. 10:30 Progress has been made on opening up some of the dialogue on the subject and ensuring that biodiversity is considered in fisheries decisions.
The former Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans, Keith Brown, told the committee that the Scottish Government had indeed engaged with the Crown Office on the particular concerns that your colleague raised.
All it comes down to is the country that those people are from—and, funnily enough, in every single one of those countries, the people are black or brown. That is not good enough. I strongly agree with that.
We would like something more formal to be put in place. 09:30 House of Lords committees have made some interesting proposals, and interesting proposals have been made in, for example, the Brown report—I have forgotten its full name—whereby there would be not only transparency but some sort of challenge.
You are sitting in Orkney, which probably has more brown signs at roadsides per head of population than the rest of Scotland, so you are absolutely at the centre of the cultural sector.
Members will recall that the Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans, Keith Brown, indicated that he would update the committee on on-going review of the regulations after three months.