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Apart from rebooting the landlord registration system and declaration of rent, is there anything else that we could add at the same time?

The next item on our agenda is for the committee to consider two negative instruments. There is no requirement for the committee to make any recommendations on negative instruments.

As members have no comments to make, does the committee agree that we do not wish to make any recommendations on the instruments?

Members indicated agreement.

Okay—thanks. On Monday, we spoke to a crofter. Jo Hunt is an economist turned grower and vegetable-box producer. He worked out that support could be extended to the 100 market gardens in Scotland, with no actual additional demand on the public purse, by redistributing the basic payments. Currently, 68 per cent of basic payments go to 10 per cent of farms. Will you outline your current thinking about the capping, tapering and front loading that could help to redistribute payments in the future payment framework?

John Kerr was at a previous meeting when we looked at the bill with the bill team. He brought to my understanding the Government’s thinking that the money allocation is not fixed; it is a process because it is part of the just transition and will be evolving.

No, it was not.

You can come back to it.

Okay, but do you have any sense of the timing? You do not want a certain date, but will it be within a certain number of years or a certain—

I might not have picked you up correctly, but part of my question was about new schemes or new versions of schemes. I guess that this touches on Alasdair Allan’s question, which was about the Scottish statutory instruments. Is it your intention to create entirely new regulations to govern those schemes? If so, how will the powers be set out and how are you going to use them in your work on the rural support plan?

That would be very welcome. The clear message that I get is that we need to pay strong attention to the route map, because that is telling us where we are going.

I will just continue my point for now, because I am collecting my thoughts here. It is interesting to note that the BTO data has already been used, because I am going to reference it. It is an interesting piece that highlights that we can use data in different ways. My approach here is a precautionary one.

The data that I have refers to moorland birds in the English, Welsh and Scottish uplands.