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I am just trying to work out why mandating the reporting of procurement emissions could have a negative impact on behaviours and decision making.

Mandatory reporting will be introduced in the future. Do you think that voluntary reporting will have an impact on the actions of Scottish local authorities?

You mentioned East Renfrewshire Council. How many other of the 32 local authorities report voluntarily on scope 3 emissions?

I have a couple of questions. Plug-in hybrids can be zero emission or they can be running on petrol all day. How were they handled in the scheme, if at all?

That is helpful.

Cabinet secretary, I think that you mentioned the 6,000 target for EV charge points, and the figure of 30,000. To provide a little bit of clarity, I do not think that those include home charge points at all. The target covers all publicly available charge points, such as those provided by service stations and supermarkets, but not those provided by local authorities. Is that correct?

I return to the point that was made earlier about organisational targets and geographical targets. We have 32 local authorities, of which 17 have set geographical targets and 26 have their own organisational targets. If we look ahead to carbon budgeting, what needs to be put in place? What help do local authorities need to have such targets in place? Some local authorities’ targets are more ambitious than the national targets and some are less ambitious. How do we get all the targets flowing down to local authorities in the correct way? Alison, do you want to have a stab at answering that first?

How will the funding go to local authorities to ensure that they have plans in place that can feed into the national plans? Do you feel that the funding is in place now? Are we ready to do that?

My question is on the same theme of clarity. We are talking about a 75 per cent reduction in emissions by 2030. Claudia, when you talk about organisational emissions, are you talking only about Aberdeenshire? Who will be responsible for the geographical emissions from Aberdeenshire? Will you play a part in that? Will it be part of your carbon budget or do you see it as part of the Scottish Government budget? Where are the dividing lines?

Do we not already have organisations in place that will make collaboration better and easier? I am thinking of COSLA, which you mentioned, and its close work with the Scottish Government. Does that not work at present?

There is never enough money, but are the structures there?