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What do you mean by “managed as a whole”?

What if you were the third-largest landholder or owner in Scotland but each of the individual sites that you owned did not trigger the threshold for a land management plan? Should such a landholder or owner be responsible for bringing forward a land management plan?

Okay. That is very clear.

Sarah-Jane, I want to go back to your comment that you were surprised that the Scottish Government had—I think that I am paraphrasing—flipped the process and placed the obligation on the seller. Had it been considering that the process should be based on the purchaser?

Yes, we are getting into the weeds of how the system would operate, rather than considering the principle of whether there should be a transfer test or a public interest test. There would be greater transparency in being up front in saying that there will be a public interest test, rather than a transfer test, which is a bit non-specific.

Do you think that that was too high?

Yes, but do you think that amending the bill to give clarity to that would be helpful?

Okay. I turn to the threshold of 3,000 hectares. Do you think that that is the right threshold?

What—the obligations that go with it?

Great—thank you.

Do you agree with all those principles—transparency, awareness raising and engagement—being in a land management plan?

Is the timeline of around five years for the land management plan correct, or should the period of time be longer?