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Item 7 is the consideration of options for the future work programme, as discussed at the away day and back here, item 8 is the first draft of the committee's report on the Executive's fresh talent initiative.
Section 6(1)(b) provides for the Scottish ministers to make additional exclusions and allows them to specify, by order subject to the negative resolution procedure, types of plan or programme to be excluded from the description of plans and programmes set out in section 5(4).
Amendments 27 and 46 seek to do that and to ensure that, under the bill, vulnerable witnesses with non-visible disabilities will be entitled to the same support and assistance as other vulnerable witnesses are, which I know is the Executive's aim.
The fact that even the top 25 per cent of Scottish agriculture is making money is something of a miracle. You did not mention the LFA-assisted specialist seed producers, for example.
The Committee also seeks assurances from the Scottish Government that, if loans are to be issued as part of the financial assistance provided for by this section, it will issue clear guidance setting out rates of interest for loans and how these will be managed.