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Can you confirm that the spring end of the muirburn season will be set to either 15 or 31 March, on a precautionary basis, to take account of the need to protect birds from nest destruction?
We think that that model would be a huge step forward in holding to account breeders who are unscrupulous and are not breeding to the standards that we would expect, and in enforcing the legislation.
We have to ensure that we are taking into account those other impacts, and we will do so through the processes that we have specified, as well as undertaking our own engagements throughout.
How do you go about looking at and selecting hotels for use? What do you take into account? The process has evolved over the two or three years for which hotels have been used.
Obviously, as the Public Audit Committee, we are interested in the public accountability of the service, and the only way for us to achieve that is to have the data and that degree of transparency.
Why do we not go by the age of accountability or responsibility? Some of the 16 and 17-year-olds that we are talking about have the mental age of someone much younger, so why are we stuck on chronological age?
There is general consensus that cod are moving north at something like 2 miles a year, although that does not account for the declines in their abundance.
So, if I look at the 2019 accounts, I will see that the £184 million is, basically, a 60 per cent reduction in what ScotRail was receiving in 2019, on the basis that we have lost 40 per cent of passengers, according to the figures that we have.
Our water supply is metered, which means that we pay the bills as they come in via the association accounts. All that has happened this year will come out in a fortnight’s time.