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NatureScot has also made other recommendations on how national parks should be run. For example, it recommends that there should be more involvement of communities and different sectors in developing national park plans, and that funding streams should be available to deliver the plans.

What are your views? Would further changes to how national parks are governed or supported address your concerns about existing or future national parks?

The Scottish Government has proposed changes to national parks legislation in a bill that is due to be introduced later this parliamentary year. Did you engage with that consultation? If so, were you able to take that proposal into account in the development of the nomination that you are involved in?

NatureScot made other recommendations to improve how national parks are run. For example, it said that there should be more involvement of communities and different sectors in developing national park plans, and that funding streams should be available to deliver the plans.

What are your views on those suggestions?

This is my last question. Would you like to see any further changes to how national parks are governed or supported that would help to maximise benefits, or that you think could help to resolve stakeholders’ concerns about the designation of new areas?

When I asked the witnesses in the previous session whether they were aware of the proposals, a lot of them said that they were not. How can the Government get those people involved?

We should keep the petition open and write to the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills to ask for an update on the Scottish Government’s work with local authorities to reach an agreement on the provision of learning hours, including information on how the work is expected to progress and when information on the outcome of that work will be available, and to ask when the analysis of responses to the consultation of prescribing minimum hours will be published. Given that the consultation closed in June 2023, we should ask for an explanation as to why its publication is taking so long.

We should keep the petition open and write to the Scottish Government to highlight the requirement in England for an assessment by two doctors before short-term detention and to ask how it can be confident that just one medical opinion is sufficient for cases in Scotland.

We should write to the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills to ask what the next steps will be following the publication of the gender-based violence in schools framework, when the Scottish Government intends to commission an independent review of the framework and when it expects that review to conclude.

We should keep the petition open and, as well as doing what Mr Marra suggested, write to the Scottish Government to ask whether it accepts the petitioner’s view that Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and hypermobility spectrum disorders are not necessarily rare diseases, as they are often undiagnosed. In the light of that, we should ask what action is being taken, beyond the rare disease action plan, to improve diagnostic services. We should also highlight the commitment by NHS Wales to co-produce a hypermobility pathway for primary care and ask whether a similar exercise could be undertaken in Scotland.

What are the chances of asking for a parliamentary debate as well, as you mentioned?