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Yes, you are getting off topic. I think that you were saying that the changes have been very small.

Kevin Stewart wants to come in with a supplementary when Douglas Lumsden has finished.

Before you answer that, you have experience of forestry and how community consultation on forestry plans goes, so it would be helpful if you could explain the differences or similarities that you see between the two.

It is the balance that is the issue—it is about ensuring that the land and communities commissioner has the same free spirit as the tenant farming commissioner, and not making the commissioner a regulatory body. Andy Wightman has some concerns, as well.

Magnus Linklater, do you want to come in briefly?

Mark Ruskell, is your question very succinct?

Okay. Laurie, do you have anything to add to that?

Monica Lennon has the next set of questions, and a follow-up to that one.

I am just concerned that if some areas are designated as being suitable only for community purchase, it blights the value of the land. However, as an ex-surveyor, I would say that.

We tried to get to the bottom of the £20 billion that NatureScot was talking about but I am not sure where we got to on that. I am not sure that I fully understand it, and I do not think that anyone else does. Perhaps that is why Far Ralia is back on the market with no decision on how it is to be done.

Welcome back, everyone, to the second part of our evidence-taking session with the same panel. Monica Lennon will ask some questions on land management plans.