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First, I congratulate the tourism and environment forum on producing—with VisitScotland's assistance—the "Wildlife Scotland" brochure, which was published this week and which I expected the minister to mention; perhaps it will come up later.
As I have explained in detail, we considered the board's proposals and produced regulations that will have less impact on netsmen and anglers.Catch and release for anglers means that if proprietors and others replace anglers who do not want to catch and release with anglers who do, which the evidence from around Scotland suggests can be done, the impact on ...
Section 9 states:"The Commissioner may require any person … to give evidence … or … to produce documents".I suggest that the bill should also give the commissioner the power to enter premises that are managed by a person.
As we make progress on the bill, we will, of course, produce guidance following consultation with a full range of bodies, individuals and communities that cover social, economic and environmental interests.
We appreciate that a lot of data are not currently available but, if the Executive is to meet its targets on mechanisms for equality impact assessments of budgets, we would expect each spending department at least to have an objective of producing gender-disaggregated data in its area.
The experience of countries in continental Europe shows that proportional representation voting systems tend to produce more women MPs. The future lies in mobilising the energies and skills of the women in the community.
The closing sentence of the covering letter to your submission says:"The underlying issues will not be addressed by a measure designed to manipulate voters in such a way as to produce a spurious increase in turnout for local elections."