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Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 30 March 2022
Audrey Nicoll
We have a very final question from Pauline McNeill. I will then bring the session to a close.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 30 March 2022
Audrey Nicoll
Thanks very much, minister. I will hand over to Russell Findlay to ask some other questions.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 30 March 2022
Audrey Nicoll
We will move swiftly on to some questions about control zones.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 30 March 2022
Audrey Nicoll
Thanks very much. I am keen to move questions on, because I have a few other themes to cover. I will bring in Pauline McNeill and then I would like to move to questions on licensing.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 30 March 2022
Audrey Nicoll
On that happy note, I bring in Fulton MacGregor.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 30 March 2022
Audrey Nicoll
Thank you very much—that is helpful. I have more questions around that but I will not ask them right now. I will bring Jamie Greene back in.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 30 March 2022
Audrey Nicoll
Of course. Thank you.
Jamie Greene has a supplementary question. I ask him to make it his last question, as it is now 11 o’clock.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 30 March 2022
Audrey Nicoll
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.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 30 March 2022
Audrey Nicoll
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.
11:03 Meeting continued in private until 13:10.Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 30 March 2022
Audrey Nicoll
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?