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Local authorities are responsible for the development of shoreline management plans and so on. In March, my local authority in Dumfries and Galloway began a consultation to look at those challenges and to set out a list of policy options. Are you involved in that? Is there a national framework for policy options and the funding of pinch point and critical interventions that are required?

It looks like we have lost Danny Renton for the time being. The other witnesses are still available, so we will move on to—

That answer was quite clear. I call Rachael Hamilton, who will be followed by Karen Adam.

Thank you. We move to questions from Jim Fairlie.

Thank you very much. That brings the evidence session to an end. I thank everyone for taking part and providing some valuable information. We look forward to catching up with you again during this parliamentary session.

We will be looking at funding and so on in next week’s session, so some of those topics will come up again.

Thank you. Andy Wells, the Crown estate has forestry and estates, so you are a land manager. Will you pick up on some of Jim Fairlie’s points with that in mind and also touch on the foreshore? The committee has heard about blue carbon in a lot of our evidence sessions. In a previous session, we had an expert on foreshores and blue carbon from places such as wetlands, who did not think that there was a role for Crown Estate Scotland. Will you comment on that?

That would be appreciated. We move on to the theme of data collection and monitoring.

Just before we move on, I think that Rachael Hamilton has a supplementary question on that topic.

Rachael Hamilton, Karen Adam, Jenni Minto and Mercedes Villalba all have supplementaries.