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When will it be judged that the system has been delivered? Will it be when all the automated bank payments have gone to the 22,000 farmers throughout Scotland?
Good morning, minister.Under the heading “Biomass sustainability”, paper 3 mentions“Amendments to land criteria so that energy crops grown under the Energy Crops Regulations 2000 or an equivalent scheme are automatically treated as meeting the land criteria for solid and gaseous biomass”.Will you expand on what would be involved in that particular automation? Does that mean that no checks are carried out on that happening and that it would just happen?
The second question is, that amendment S3M-739.1, in the name of Des McNulty, which seeks to amend motion S3M-739, in the name of Michael Russell, on the environment, be agreed to.
The first question is, that amendment S3M-93.2, in the name of Des McNulty, which seeks to amend motion S3M-93, in the name of Stewart Stevenson, on the abolition of bridge tolls, be agreed to.
I represent a region, so I have the benefit of being able to interact with several local authorities and to identify differences in service delivery—there is a bit of a patchwork. It would be good to pin down some of the issues at local authority level.