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Jo Green, what is your view?

Do you have any indication of when there might be more certainty?

What do you expect to be on the agenda with your counterpart organisations across the UK?

In its early work, ESS has had a very welcome focus on air quality and on whether we have the right monitoring and regulatory frameworks in place to tackle poor air quality. I note that one of the report’s recommendations is that we need better monitoring, with bodies that can carry out such monitoring and then take very quick enforcement action over air quality breaches.

I ask Mark Roberts to reflect on that and Jo Green to reflect on whether SEPA has an active role to play in that work. Is an active conversation taking place about how the remit of a body—or bodies—could be strengthened or changed as a result of that ESS recommendation?

Okay. Jo, do you have any thoughts on that?

There is a lot of uncertainty. What is the ESS view on this?

Yes.

I am pleased, too.

I go back to my point on accountability and openness to the public. You have consulted on your initial plan and we have heard some of the feedback from that. Can you say a little more about how you are going to maintain that openness and accountability in the future?

We could see a bonfire of European Union environment law in the months and years ahead due to the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, which is currently working its way through Westminster. In your respective roles in your organisations, what work are you doing to consider what the impacts of the bill might be, which laws should be saved and which could be legitimately replaced?

Have you set up a special unit to look at the issue? What are the resourcing implications? There are 570 environmental laws that might be covered by the bill.