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Rural Affairs and Islands Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 25 September 2024
Christine Grahame
I wanted to do it in a stream, so that you follow my train of thought.
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 25 September 2024
Christine Grahame
Is that additional to the £29.3 million that we already have for compliance?
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 25 September 2024
Christine Grahame
Convener, do we know the level of the fines? Do we have information about that?
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 25 September 2024
Christine Grahame
I would quite like to see that. If we are being told that the fines are not high enough, that has to change. It deters the people who obey the law, which is wrong if others get away with it.
I do not know if I have anything else to say, but I might want to come back in with supplementary questions. I am trying to find my way through my papers.
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 25 September 2024
Christine Grahame
When we look at the millions that you are having to spend on compliance and enforcement, £140,000 does not seem like an awful lot of money. Does that get ploughed back into the budget?
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 25 September 2024
Christine Grahame
I hope that my question is about the budget and it will be brief—
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 25 September 2024
Christine Grahame
You will need to explain—
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 25 September 2024
Christine Grahame
I have a brief supplementary question. Was that £10 million the annual figure?
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 25 September 2024
Christine Grahame
I hope that was short enough, convener.
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 25 September 2024
Christine Grahame
So, there will be another regulation that says, “Well, it will not be the rate that was applied in 2018; it will be the rate that applies in 2024.”