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The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 11 March 2025
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Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]

Land Reform (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 18 February 2025

Mark Ruskell

There needs to be a joined-up picture that people can input into, rather than many complicated consultations that do not mean anything to anybody.

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]

Land Reform (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 18 February 2025

Mark Ruskell

I turn to the transfer test. I am struggling to understand why the original proposals from the Scottish Land Commission for a public interest test were rejected. Instead, we have a transfer test, which is, in effect, backward looking. It is applied to the seller of the land rather than to the purchaser of the land. I am interested in why that judgment was made and why the Land Commission’s proposal on a public interest test was discounted.

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]

Land Reform (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 18 February 2025

Mark Ruskell

I am inviting you to do that—I will not mention the seals.

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]

Land Reform (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 18 February 2025

Mark Ruskell

Indeed.

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]

Land Reform (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 18 February 2025

Mark Ruskell

The matter came up in the evidence on the bill.

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]

Land Reform (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 18 February 2025

Mark Ruskell

You have spoken about decisions on lotting embedding the public interest. Does that mean that particular obligations and conditions should be applied to lotted land?

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]

Land Reform (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 18 February 2025

Mark Ruskell

So, it will be implicit within a lotting decision that there will be land management that is different from how the land was managed previously. I am still struggling to see how ownership will deliver on aspects such as the public interest.

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]

Appointment of the Chair of Environmental Standards Scotland

Meeting date: 18 February 2025

Mark Ruskell

This is probably the final question—if there is time, convener. It is about your relationship with other stakeholders, Dr Dixon. We now have the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland, which presumably drives quite a lot of referrals to ESS; there was also the work that ESS did—with, I think, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities—around reporting scope 3 emissions. There was perhaps a different interpretation about what was appropriate there. Do you have any comments or thoughts about how those more challenging stakeholder relationships are working and how you wish to progress and develop them? To summarise, I guess that there will be those that want you to go faster and those that want you to go a wee bit slower.

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]

Appointment of the Chair of Environmental Standards Scotland

Meeting date: 18 February 2025

Mark Ruskell

Thank you.

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]

Land Reform (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 18 February 2025

Mark Ruskell

However, if good practice has been stuck to, you would not envisage that being part of a compensation claim.