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Yes, but what we are looking at here is a new-build heating strategy.

Thanks for that. We will have to end there. We have gone over time, although I had thought for a moment that we would finish sooner.

This has been such a great conversation, and I really appreciate your coming in or being online to help us to understand your perspectives.

I suspend the meeting to allow for a change of witnesses and to reorganise the room.

Welcome back. We are joined by Patrick Harvie, who is the Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings, Active Travel and Tenants’ Rights, and by his officials Gareth Fenney, who is the head of heat networks and investment; Antonia Georgieva, who is the heat in buildings team leader—new-build heat standard, enforcement, traditional buildings; Claire Jones, who is the head of onshore electricity policy; and Norman Macleod, who is the senior principal legal officer. I welcome you all and invite the minister to make a short opening statement before I open the discussion to questions from members.

Just do it now.

Thanks very much.

Thanks very much. It is good to have all of you here this morning for this conversation.

We will now turn to questions from members. Please indicate whether you would like to respond to any question that is asked, although I should say that we do tend to direct questions to someone initially. If you want to come in on the back of a question, please indicate as much.

As far as is possible in this setting, we are trying to have a free-flowing conversation rather than a question-and-answer session. Charlotte Lee and Duncan Sharp, as you are appearing virtually, you can indicate that you want to come in by typing R in the chat function. As, I think, witnesses already know, there is no need to turn your microphones on and off—that will be done for you.

I will begin the questions, and my first one is directed to Alan Stark. I am interested in hearing whether you agree with the principle of the Government’s approach to regulating for a new-build heat standard and that a regulatory rather than voluntary approach is needed to ensure that the Scottish Government meets its net zero targets.

Charlotte Lee would like to come in.

Would you like to come in, Charlotte?

We will move on in the interests of time—unless Ivan McKee has anything else to ask.

Thanks very much. Alan Stark wants to come in.