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I suspend the meeting for approximately five minutes. We will come back at approximately 10.40.

Christine Grahame has a brief supplementary.

I will suspend the meeting briefly to discuss that so that we can decide the way forward.

The question is about whether the rates of mortality and whatever are also taken into consideration. High volumes of fish might be brought into the farm during a cycle. We will not put you on the spot at the moment, because you obviously do not have the figures in front of you that we have, so we will write to you and, hopefully, you can respond to that in the future.

Mr Mountain.

Our second item of business is consideration of a UK statutory instrument consent notification. If members have no comments to make, are we content to agree with the Scottish Government’s decision to consent to the provisions set out in the notification being included in UK rather than Scottish subordinate legislation?

Members indicated agreement.

That concludes our business in public. We move into private session.

Thank you. We will move on to our next theme.

We continue with our investigation into salmon farming. Rhoda Grant has questions on economic and social benefits.

Edward Mountain is next.