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Thank you. That was helpful.

Mr Macleod, I will come back to you on the point about the commissioner having the powers to investigate and enforce breaches. You seem to be against that.

I am not trying to put words into your mouth, but do you think that that power almost takes it from being an organisation that advises and helps landowners to one that suddenly polices them?

Mr Colquhoun, do you have a view on this?

But is it not helpful that the Government has got that in, or is it absolutely not required? Does legislation already exist to deal with this?

But is this not a way for the Government to try to encourage that environmental element that we are all aiming for?

Yes. I just have a brief question about Mr Macleod’s written submission, in which he says that there might be some confidential and “commercially sensitive” information that you might not want to put in a plan. Can you give us some examples of that information?

Is the only issue, then, the sale date, or is it what people want to do with the land?

I will ask about the establishment of the land and communities commissioner. In the interests of time, I will probably wrap all my questions together.

Is it appropriate that landowners are disqualified from that role? What further powers should the commissioner have in relation to supporting and enforcing the measures relating to community engagement and land management plans?

Mr Macleod, you suggest that the commissioner should not be

“responsible for investigating and enforcing breaches of community engagement regulations”.

Will you give a bit of context to that?

Would there not be a conflict of interests? I guess that is why the exclusion would be put in the bill.