Chamber and committees

Mark, can I come in with a follow-up question before you go on to your next one?

Sorry—I say this out of interest because I have always slightly struggled on this point. We will still need to collect glass in recycling bins, such as jam jars and all the rest of it. Surely, the local councils are used to funding that collection through the money that they raise by collecting better glass and selling it on. Now, their glass recycling will just be a loss for them, will it not?

Good morning and welcome to the 21st meeting in 2023 of the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee. We have received apologies from the deputy convener, Fiona Hyslop; Bob Doris is attending the meeting as her substitute—welcome to the committee, Bob. As this is the first meeting that you are attending as a substitute member of the committee, I invite you to declare any relevant interests.

The second item of business is a decision on taking items 6 and 7 on our agenda in private. Item 6 is consideration of evidence that we will hear under agenda item 3 and item 7 is consideration of our approach to the future Scottish Land Commission appointments. Do members agree to take those items in private?

Members indicated agreement.

We also have to decide whether to consider our work programme in private next week, and whether to consider our report, “Scotland’s electricity infrastructure: inhibitor or enabler of our energy ambitions?” in private at future meetings. Do members agree to take those items in private?

Members indicated agreement.

Okay—that is helpful. Minister, do you have a view, from your discussions, on whether the mood music around 20p per container was going to be something that all the other interested parties in the UK would buy into?

I encourage members to stick to the content of the regulations.

Would any member like to contribute?

As you and I well know, it will be just a quick vote at decision time, so it is simply a question of putting it in.

So, in the regulations that you will bring in to update these regulations, it will just be a matter of amending the date. There will be nothing else in it.

But it is just about a date.