Chamber and committees

Great—thank you for that.

We will move on to the sixth and final theme, which is other types of support. Willie Coffey will ask questions about that.

There are four more themes to cover: the parliamentary procedure, workload issues, the impact on local government revenues, which we have already touched on, and other types of support. Paul McLennan will pick up the theme of parliamentary procedure.

We will move on. Miles Briggs and Elena Whitham have some questions on the theme of workload issues.

Agenda item 2 is on a consent notification in relation to a United Kingdom statutory instrument. The instrument is being laid in the UK Parliament under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and has been classified as type 1. The instrument is also being considered by the Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee and the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee. Does any member wish to comment?

As no member wishes to comment, does the committee agree to approve the Scottish Government’s proposal to consent to the provision being made by the UK Government in a statutory instrument laid in the UK Parliament? In agreeing to do so, does the committee agree to seek further information in relation to the following: how the Scottish Government would replicate the requirement that applied to the European Commission for any amendments to the regulations using those powers to achieve a high level of environmental protection; whether any regulations amending the requirements of the Management of Extractive Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2010 would be subject to the negative or affirmative procedure; why the Scottish ministers consider it appropriate that the new powers will be conferred not just on them but on the Secretary of State for Scotland, subject to a consent requirement; and in what circumstances the Scottish Government would consider it appropriate for the UK Government to legislate in that area?

I see from the screen that there is agreement that we will seek further information.

Thank you for that response and for seeing it from both perspectives.

Thank you, Martin. If anyone else would like to come in on that question, please indicate that with an R in the chat function and I will call you. I will give you a moment to do that before I move on. While you are doing that, I note that Mark Griffin, who is a committee member, has sent his apologies. I see that Charles Golding and Alastair Kirkwood would like to come in.

Thank you very much for that perspective. Martin Clarkson wants to come back in.

Miles Briggs, do you have any more questions?

We move on to the theme of impact on local government revenues.

Mr Fraser, would you like to comment on that?