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Guidance on the 2006 act allows for animals that live in the wild but whose behaviour, life cycle or physiology is altered by being under human control to be classed as protected animals.
In essence, consumers are essential to the net zero transition, because so much of it now is about consumer behaviour—the way in which people interact with their energy systems, their homes, transport and food, and the choices that they make.
There now seems to be no way to hold them on remand as a result of that behaviour. That is unfortunate. What Philip Lamont said is that, even at summary level, where non-appearance is part of the case against a person, that can be taken into account—unless I am getting that wrong.
Recognising the 10th anniversary of the Christie commission report, my one note of caution is that the measures drive a lot of the behaviours, so there is a need to think about whether the measures are the right ones to produce the outcomes, and we tried to convey that sentiment in our recent reporting.
There was a question earlier about behaviour change. What we know about changing people’s behaviour is that you have to make change easy, and preferably aspirational.
You explained why you did not want to use the antisocial behaviour legislation and I take the point that we would end up with antisocial behaviour orders on trees.
Whereas the law had always criminalised the antisocial behaviour associated with soliciting and loitering for the purposes of selling sex—I well remember hearing committee evidence about such behaviour in the east end of Glasgow that caused huge concerns to the residents there—the 2007 act levelled the playing field ...