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We have had protective expenses orders for the best part of 10-plus years, and more cases have come through the Court of Session because of that mechanism.
We are planning to have a follow-up session in the coming weeks that will involve industry interests, to work things through as best we can. I will follow up on that with a question for the minister, Andy Kinnaird or Fiona Simpson.
It is clear that we need to make sure that we are doing the best job in relation to how and where we fish and that we are minimising the impact of that.
We will continue to liaise with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero to ensure as best as possible, although it is its decision, that that does not happen.
The scale is different from what it was doing for the other payments, but it also means that it is a lot more difficult for us to forecast, evaluate our forecasts and then, ultimately, try to provide the best forecast that we can for the Scottish budget.