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Thank you for your personal views, Nick.

I think that what Mr Lumsden means is a model lease for environmental purposes. We are starting with the easy question about something that we have never seen, and we are asking your opinion on it.

You do not have to say, Ben, whether that is an incentive or a disincentive. However, I note that the bill team is sitting in the public gallery, and it is probably noting that, as well.

From your experience of resumption, is it hard nosed that people are entitled to only five times the rent, or is there some sort of give and take on both sides, so that there might be ways to make things more palatable to the tenant? Is it just dealt with in a matter-of-fact way?

If the tenant is being creative, does the landlord have to be creative, too?

Gail Watt is nodding. Are you agreeing, Gail? Was I not supposed to see that nod?

Okay. Thank you.

The next questions are from Jackie Dunbar, who has been very quiet during the meeting so far.

Mark Ruskell, did you indicate that you wanted to ask a supplementary question?

Jackie Dunbar has a question.

I want to ask briefly about game damage. Last week, I asked a question about damage by deer. We were told that deer could be controlled by the tenant farmer if they were causing damage within an enclosed field. The bill allows the tenant to claim against the landlord for deer that might have come from the next-door neighbour’s land, over which the landlord has no control. I am confused about who is responsible for what when it comes to control of deer. Maybe Grierson Dunlop or Fergus Colquhoun could help me.