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What does that extensive research entail?

Convener, Lynne Sneddon has indicated that she wants to come in.

I want to come in on the back of Emma Roddick’s questions. Professor Sneddon mentioned wrasse and lumpfish—or what we collectively call cleaner fish. We have been focusing on the welfare of salmon, but will you describe the welfare of lumpfish and wrasse when they are in salmon cages? Do you have any concerns about them?

Can I clarify something? When you talk about a reduction in biomass, you are talking about a reduction in the number of fish. If that keeps getting reduced, at some point it becomes economically impossible for a farm to operate. Is that right?

I am interested in understanding whether you think that sufficient progress has been made in the implementation of the previous RECC inquiry’s recommendations on the environmental impacts of salmon farming. In particular, I would like to hear your thoughts about climate change and spatial planning.

That comes to the end of our questions. Thanks so much for joining us this morning. It has been helpful to understand a bit more about what you are doing at rent service Scotland. As that was the final public item on our agenda today, I now close the public part of our meeting.

That was helpful. Our intention was to get an overview of the bill. We will move on to some more detailed questions, starting with Gordon MacDonald, who has some questions about rent.

I would like to get a little more detail on rent control areas. Will putting the duty on ministers to decide whether to propose or designate rent control areas, informed by the local authorities, protect local authorities from the pressure and legal risk? Is that part of the thinking? Can we be assured that, given the design of the bill, the Scottish ministers are prepared and resourced to shoulder that risk where necessary?

Thank you. That was helpful. I call Miles Briggs, who has some more questions in this area.

A representative of rent service Scotland, who is in the room at the moment, will join us shortly. We can ask for a bit more detail about that.

Willie Coffey has a number of questions about evictions.