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Carbon Accounting Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/318) Agenda item 3, which is our final item in public, is consideration of the Carbon Accounting Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021.
According to the Health and Safety Executive, farmers and farm workers account for 1 per cent of all UK workers but 18 per cent of all worker fatalities.
Additional requirements must be met before such regulations may be made, including sharing them with consultees and laying them in draft before the Scottish Parliament.
The requirements specified for the form of an annual account and the manner in which a statement of account is published must be flexible enough to be amended through time.
I see there being an important role. We should be accountable to Parliament, and parliamentary committees should be very robust with Government on where we are not doing enough.
I suppose that it is about fleshing out sufficient flexibility in what has been determined thus far to at least take account of what we think that we are starting to imagine some of the issues might be.
It is important—I think that you alluded to this, and that you agree—that we account for the money that we spend because it is taxpayers’ money and therefore it must go to the right purposes.
Do any other witnesses want to come in on that before we move on? We have heard anecdotal accounts of similar practices, but I do not have any particular evidence on that to share at the moment.
That will help us to quantify what a national specification should look like in practice, with clear lines of accountability. I obviously have accountability on a national level, but we also need to look to local partners’ accountability, and a national specification will help...