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That is a helpful clarification because we have been considering the option to pull off that part of the bill and deal with it separately so that we would not be restricted to the current timescales in considering the other provisions.

Thank you very much. We have some more questions on the impact of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020, on some financial issues and on delegated powers, but we will write to you and ask for written responses to those.

I thank the minister and her team for joining us. We will now move into private session.

Thank you very much, minister. We will move directly to questions. I ask members to make their questions as succinct as possible.

I will open up with a general question for you, minister. One of the policy objectives of the bill, as you outlined, is to support what is almost a cultural shift in how fireworks and pyrotechnics are used, changing our relationship with them. Can you explain in broad terms how you envisage that cultural change being brought about through the provisions of the bill that we are discussing today?

Does Katy Clark want to come back in?

If that is all from Katy Clark, I will bring in Jamie Greene with a follow-up question, and we will then move on to licensing.

Good morning, and welcome to the 13th meeting in 2022 of the Criminal Justice Committee. We have received no apologies this morning.

Our main item of business is our final evidence session on the Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Bill. I refer members to papers 1 and 2.

I am very pleased to welcome Ash Regan, the Minister for Community Safety; Elinor Findlay, the bill team leader; David Bell, the pyrotechnics policy lead; and Natalie Stewart, a solicitor in the Scottish Government legal directorate. Ms Stewart joins us remotely. We appreciate the time that you are taking to join us this morning. I invite the minister to make some brief opening remarks.

I will bring in Katy Clark, who has some questions on prosecution. We will then move to questions on licensing.

I will bring in Katy Clark. I apologise, Katy, because I do not think that you had finished your line of questioning earlier.

That is helpful—thank you.

Pauline McNeill, do you have a follow-up question on licensing or are you happy for us to move on?

Collette Stevenson has a follow-up question, and then we will move on to restrictions on use and supply, on which I will bring in Fulton MacGregor.