Chamber and committees

I would like to hear Martin Reid’s thoughts about groupage. We know that that was a key issue at the start. Is that likely to continue to cause problems for your members?

There is a flurry of hands among members, but I will go first to Jim Fairlie, who has a quick supplementary question.

Thank you, Fraser. I am sure that we are all interested in a fact-finding mission to some of your businesses across Scotland. I move on to James Withers.

I thank you all for your comments. We will certainly take them on board when we put our work programme together. That was a very helpful evidence session.

I will briefly suspend the meeting to allow the witnesses to change over.

The good food nation bill is one of the last areas of questioning, so go for it.

Fraser, do you want to start?

Before I come back to Ariane Burgess, I will bring in Mercedes Villalba for a supplementary.

I am sorry, Pete—I am going to have to stop you there. We are tight for time, but I am sure that some of the topics that you were going to cover will be brought up in questions. I will move to Colin Smith for a brief opening statement, then we will get on to questions.

I have a question for Pete Cheema or John Lee from the Scottish Grocers Federation. What impact do the environmental challenges have on your businesses? That might be about reducing packaging or sell-by or use-by dates. Do you see issues that you will have to tackle as a result of strengthening environmental policies?

Last, but not least, is Mercedes Villalba. I hope that I have not pronounced your surname wrongly.