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Date answered:
4 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the cruise industry’s health and safety COVID-19 protocols represent best practice. The Scottish Government is satisfied that the industry protocols developed by the UK Chamber of Shipping represent current best practice.
I do not want to indulge myself too much and go too far off topic, but I would like to get Jamie Gray’s perspective. The trick will be to have the best legal brains—we had Lord Hodge before the committee last week; you do not get better than that—aligned with the best technological brains.
Many projects have been tried across Europe, and you have collated some of the best practice on that. However, none of this feels like the big, big shift that is needed.
The Salvesen v Riddell case is the best example of that. I guess that people would not want to see a return to that, as it was deeply hurtful for a variety of reasons.