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In our correspondence with organisations, we should stress that the programmes—the ones that will use the capital that has already been allocated—should be accelerated. If we have to wait until 2017 or 2020, it will seem as if things will never happen.
It would be quite achievable, and a good vision for Scotland, to have no wood being wasted or going into landfill. By 2015 or 2020, it should be possible to get there.
However, the most critical sector to get us from 2011 to 2020, so that we can meet the policy-driven Government targets that you have described, is offshore wind.
I accept that the bill, as drafted, did not make it explicitly clear that the abolition of a body could follow only as a consequence of other provisions in an order made under part 2.
We are all fine, and we all had a highly constructive visit.I am pleased that we are having a subject debate on Malawi following my first ministerial trip there.