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We are not making a decision here and now as to whether we will take the petition forward as a major item on our work programme. We shall simply postpone consideration of that question until our work programme meeting in September.
Further work is currently in hand to improve those sources, and SNH's site condition monitoring programme will assist in the evaluation of deer impacts on designated natural heritage features.
If committees were to get outside assistance, it would be assistance of a different nature from the sort of evidence-gathering role that we are proposing.