Chamber and committees

Jamie, do you want to comment on licensing?

In that case, we will move on to questions about restrictions on the use and supply of fireworks.

We will move on to questions on the licensing scheme proposals. I ask for the most succinct answers you can offer. We have quite a lot of interest in the subject, and questions to get through.

Good morning and welcome to the 12th meeting in 2022 of the Criminal Justice Committee. We have no apologies this morning.

Our main item of business is an evidence session on the Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Bill. I refer members to papers 1 and 2. I am pleased to welcome Fraser Stevenson, vice-chairman of the British Fireworks Association; Andy Hubble, chairman of the British Pyrotechnists Association; and Norman Donald, the owner of NJE Fireworks Displays, who joins us remotely on BlueJeans. Good morning to you all. We appreciate the time that you are taking to join us.

We move directly to questions. I will open with a general question, which I will put first to Fraser Stevenson and then to Andy Hubble. Could you give us some broad comments, from the perspective of your respective organisations, on your experience to date of dealing with and supplying fireworks and pyrotechnic articles?

I call Fulton MacGregor, to be followed by Jamie Greene.

We move to Jamie Greene.

I will bring in Russell Findlay for a final question, then I will bring in Norman Donald, in case there is anything that he would like to add.

Thank you. We will move straight on to Andy.

Norman, are you able to respond?

It looks as though Norman’s connection has been lost, so we will move on.

Norman Donald is still with us. We have just turned his camera off to try and get a better audio feed.