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I will take that away and have a discussion with my team about the transparency element and what will be published and when, so that you have the information. For now, with regard to this budget, there is a document with two parts that gives a climate narrative, the contribution to our climate change response and the carbon assessment commentary on the capital and resource budget.

Diarmuid confirms that he would like feedback on the taxonomy.

No—I have answered it. I think that it is feasible.

With regard to the budget lines in my portfolio in relation to the circular economy and zero waste, £23.2 million is associated with zero waste activity, and there is also Zero Waste Scotland’s funding of £16.4 million.

I do not want to get this figure wrong but, in addition to that, earlier, I pointed to an area in which local authorities were given funding for climate-related activities. Local authorities will also receive money as a result of extended producer responsibility, which will, very significantly, allow local authorities to work on dealing with their waste in a different way. The deposit return scheme will have an impact on being able to shift their capacity to other things.

It is not just the budget line for zero waste activity in my portfolio that is assisting with the rolling out of the route map and the activities that are associated with the route map; there is also the funding that COSLA asked for.

No.

Peatland restoration is funded from the rural affairs budget, so Mairi Gougeon is responsible for the budget line that is associated with that. I am looking at some of the lines—

Yes. It is monitored by SEPA.

Can we confirm that in writing to the committee?

I was concerned.

No, because the free allocations militate against that. I am talking about the particular instrument that we are discussing today, which is designed to close a loophole through which operators who have ceased production would benefit from a scheme in which they would have free allocations that would not be used by the operation.