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I presume that you cannot tell us whether the strategy will still include a presumption against new oil and gas. Is that correct?

You said earlier that you would have liked energy to be devolved, and that one of the things that you would have changed is fuel duty. You seemed to suggest that that would make it easier for you to reach your targets. Did you support the freezing of the fuel duty by the UK Government?

Okay. One of the other commitments in the letter was to develop

“a new integrated ticketing system that people can use across all public transport”.

There was something on that in the programme for government previously, so is that commitment something new or does it refer to something that was already announced?

Is there a timetable for that, or is that something that you cannot say?

No. I will leave it there. I am quite disappointed by how little can be said. In terms of politicising things, we have heard that the climate change target cannot be hit because carbon capture is reserved and because of Brexit and the pandemic, but we cannot seem to get any answers on transport, the decarbonisation of buildings or agriculture. However, I will leave it there, convener.

It is about something from earlier, convener—I can come back at the end.

Yes: I will follow Jackie Dunbar on that. I remind everyone of my entry in the register of members’ interests, which shows that I was a local councillor at the start of this parliamentary session.

Do you have any idea of how many fixed-penalty notices have been issued over the past five years? Perhaps, because there is not a strong enough deterrent and nobody is getting caught, that is why it happens. Would you agree with that?

On the process after the Climate Change Committee releases that advice, you will come forward with a plan, which will include the new carbon budgets, if I am correct. That would come to this committee for scrutiny, and we would have plenty of time to scrutinise it at that point.

Will you take an intervention, convener?