Chamber and committees

We have our action plan.

I will bring in Emma Jackson and then Chris Birt, if they have something new to add on this topic, and then go to Willie Coffey for his next question.

Thanks very much for that. You do not need to tell me now, but it would be super to hear some examples of local authorities that have managed to do that.

Thank you for giving us the wider context around the innovation and collaboration in Glasgow.

Apart from rebooting the landlord registration system and declaration of rent, is there anything else that we could add at the same time?

The next item on our agenda is for the committee to consider two negative instruments. There is no requirement for the committee to make any recommendations on negative instruments.

As members have no comments to make, does the committee agree that we do not wish to make any recommendations on the instruments?

Members indicated agreement.

Okay—thanks. On Monday, we spoke to a crofter. Jo Hunt is an economist turned grower and vegetable-box producer. He worked out that support could be extended to the 100 market gardens in Scotland, with no actual additional demand on the public purse, by redistributing the basic payments. Currently, 68 per cent of basic payments go to 10 per cent of farms. Will you outline your current thinking about the capping, tapering and front loading that could help to redistribute payments in the future payment framework?

John Kerr was at a previous meeting when we looked at the bill with the bill team. He brought to my understanding the Government’s thinking that the money allocation is not fixed; it is a process because it is part of the just transition and will be evolving.

No, it was not.

You can come back to it.

Okay, but do you have any sense of the timing? You do not want a certain date, but will it be within a certain number of years or a certain—