Chamber and committees

Thank you very much. That brings the evidence session to an end. I thank everyone for taking part and providing some valuable information. We look forward to catching up with you again during this parliamentary session.

We will be looking at funding and so on in next week’s session, so some of those topics will come up again.

Thank you. Andy Wells, the Crown estate has forestry and estates, so you are a land manager. Will you pick up on some of Jim Fairlie’s points with that in mind and also touch on the foreshore? The committee has heard about blue carbon in a lot of our evidence sessions. In a previous session, we had an expert on foreshores and blue carbon from places such as wetlands, who did not think that there was a role for Crown Estate Scotland. Will you comment on that?

That would be appreciated. We move on to the theme of data collection and monitoring.

Just before we move on, I think that Rachael Hamilton has a supplementary question on that topic.

Rachael Hamilton, Karen Adam, Jenni Minto and Mercedes Villalba all have supplementaries.

We move on to the topic of seawilding, which Ariane Burgess will kick off.

I am sorry, but I forgot that Danny Renton had indicated that he wanted to speak on this topic.

That brings us to the end of the session. Once again, I thank all the witnesses for setting aside time in their diaries, given the delay last week. That is very much appreciated, as is your very useful evidence.

I suspend the meeting briefly to allow a changeover of witnesses.

Danny, I do not know whether you can hear us. We will move on to another witness and see whether we can get your connection to be a little bit more stable.

If Jenni Minto does not mind, I am going to butt in here, as I am also a bit of a hedge fan.