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Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 8 October 2024
Edward Mountain
Bob Doris, do you have a final question?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 8 October 2024
Edward Mountain
Thank you.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 8 October 2024
Edward Mountain
I welcome our second panel this morning on Environmental Standards Scotland’s improvement report and the Scottish Government’s improvement plan: Gillian Martin, Acting Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero and Energy, and her supporting Scottish Government officials: Philip Raines, deputy director, domestic climate change; and Andrew Mortimer, statistician, climate change statistics and modelling.
Cabinet secretary, I think that you are going to make a brief opening statement before we move to questions.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 8 October 2024
Edward Mountain
Thank you very much, cabinet secretary.
We have a series of questions, and I get to ask the first, easy one. What are the potential benefits and challenges arising from local authorities reporting their scope 3 emissions?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 8 October 2024
Edward Mountain
I am smiling, cabinet secretary, only because we have heard reports of 60-page-long carbon footprint plans, which might make a tender process quite lengthy. However, other members will ask about resourcing and all that.
I call Douglas Lumsden.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 8 October 2024
Edward Mountain
This will be your last question. I will try to entice the cabinet secretary to be succinct, because I do not want to be in the position of not giving all committee members a chance to ask their questions, as I know that that will come back to haunt me.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 8 October 2024
Edward Mountain
Maybe you can ask that at the end, if there is time, when everyone else has asked their questions.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 8 October 2024
Edward Mountain
Thanks. Hugely good manners are popping up in the committee in relation to committee members trading questions. Bob Doris, you can ask the question that you asked the previous witnesses.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 8 October 2024
Edward Mountain
So you will ask them to do it without the resources and the money to do it? That is slightly concerning.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 8 October 2024
Edward Mountain
Good morning and welcome to the 30th meeting in 2024 of the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee. The first item on the agenda is to decide whether to take items 6, 7 and 8 in private. Item 6 is consideration of evidence heard today on the Environmental Standards Scotland’s investigation, item 7 is consideration of the draft report on the legislative consent memorandum on the United Kingdom Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill and item 8 is consideration of the contract with our adviser on environmental standards. Do we agree to take those items in private?
Members indicated agreement.