Chamber and committees

I will move on to community involvement in the Grangemouth area. Apparently, there have been lots of consultations with the local community in recent years. That is good, but the community does not seem to have seen any tangible outcomes that are linked to those consultations, which is not good. How will the Scottish Government ensure that the co-design process leads to stakeholders, including the local community, feeling that they are being listened to and that policy will address their concerns?

If we already have a track record of what some people have described as “heavily consulting” the local community and we are going to have another consultation, surely we must deliver something as a result of those consultations at some point, otherwise we will find disengagement from the local community.

I welcome that and look forward to seeing it.

I will come in on the back of some comments that Liam Middleton made. It might be a daft laddie question, but what does sustainable aviation fuel consist of?

Cabinet secretary, witnesses have suggested that involving the investor community early in the development of plans would give an opportunity to get a better understanding of the finance that might be available and of how to ensure that policies and projects are aligned with the market’s ability to deliver. How specifically will the Scottish Government use the just transition plan to highlight and package projects in a way that will ensure that they are attractive to private investors?

You have correctly said that the cost that is going to have to be absorbed is eye watering. The public sector is not going to be able to meet that cost by itself, but can the private sector do so? We keep hearing about problems with people investing long-term capital, patient capital and all that sort of thing. The Scottish National Investment Bank was brought in partly to try to plug that gap, but we are talking about tens of billions of pounds here. Is there enough capital in Scotland or, indeed, the United Kingdom or elsewhere to do that? Given that everybody is going to be tapping into the capital available to develop their own climate change targets, has any assessment been done of what might be available over a period?

I will move quickly to my questions on digital exclusion, which is an important issue in my constituency. About five years ago, the Office of Communications told me that 34 per cent of adults in my constituency did not have access to the internet or smartphones, which was an extraordinarily high amount. I hope that that has improved since then, although I do not have a figure.

It is really important that that be looked at. You state that you are taking a human rights-based approach to digital exclusion. What does that mean?

I have one last quick question. You mentioned the Standards Commission and the statutory directions, which are still in place. What is the latest position on compliance with those statutory directions?

Have you had any discussions with the commission as to how long those directions might be in place?

I will talk about governance. I refer you to page 4 and exhibit 1 of the Audit Scotland report, which gives a wee graph on your relationship with stakeholders. The report says that the auditor has commented that

“issues remain where the SPCB and the Commissioner’s Office need ‘to work together to address some of the specific governance issues identified’”.

Will you give an update on what is happening in that regard, what discussions you are having and what governance issues have been of most concern and perhaps been resolved?