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The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 14 August 2025
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Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Channel 4

Meeting date: 23 June 2022

Alasdair Allan

Finally, I have a question for David Smith. You have all been talking about how the purchase could involve 75 per cent of the company falling into the hands of one giant. Could you say a bit about what that would mean in terms of the biodiversity of what would be on offer culturally? We have talked, quite rightly, about what the implications might be of this situation economically for Scotland, but just as Derry is keen to know how Derry is represented to itself through drama and other types of programming, so is Scotland. What would be the impact culturally in terms of diversity of the offering if so much of the channel was in the hands of one organisation?

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Channel 4

Meeting date: 23 June 2022

Alasdair Allan

A couple of you have suggested that the proposal is a solution in search of a problem. My question is for John McVay and Nicole Kleeman. From a producer鈥檚 point of view, what do you see the motivation behind this exercise being? We have heard that Channel 4 is not a financial basket case. It is difficult to see, from what you have said today, how these changes would help the independent sector in any way economically. What do you think that this exercise is trying to achieve?

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Channel 4

Meeting date: 23 June 2022

Alasdair Allan

I have just one question, which is for Alex Mahon or anyone else who wants to join in. We have talked about the economic and cultural benefits of what Channel 4 does in bringing new people on. An issue that we have not talked about so much is that of writing. We have talked about how important it is to portray Scotland and to portray places in Scotland. Surely part of that is about encouraging writing鈥攐ld and new鈥攊n Scotland. What is happening on that front? What would privatisation mean for that?

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Scotland鈥檚 Census

Meeting date: 23 June 2022

Alasdair Allan

On that point, I have a hypothetical question based on what you have been talking about. You have indicated how difficult it would have been from a practical point of view to organise a census if the decision had been taken to go ahead with a census at the low point鈥攐r high point, however you want to look at it鈥攐f the restrictions around the pandemic. However, would it also have created some very strange data for historians looking back?

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Scotland鈥檚 Census

Meeting date: 23 June 2022

Alasdair Allan

My other question is about household visits. The data that you have provided suggests that there were more than 1.5 million household visits across the country by field staff, and that more than half the households in my local authority area had such a visit. Can you explain for us what a household visit constitutes?

Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee

Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 22 June 2022

Alasdair Allan

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Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee

Aquaculture Regulatory Review

Meeting date: 22 June 2022

Alasdair Allan

You mentioned that there is a kind of circularity in the funding system in Norway. Could you explain that a little bit more?

Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee

Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 22 June 2022

Alasdair Allan

Detective Sergeant Telford, we have already covered some of these issues, but one criticism that the police have made of the 2002 act is about the number and complexity of the exceptions to the offence of deliberately hunting. Can you say more about that? Does the bill rectify that problem of the number of exceptions?

Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee

Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 22 June 2022

Alasdair Allan

Does the Law Society have a view on that?

Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee

Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 22 June 2022

Alasdair Allan

I have a question for Robbie Kernahan. I appreciate that it is not quite on the same subject, but it has been put to the committee that there might be an increase in the number of guns in the countryside as a result of the legislation. I know that you have touched on that issue, but can you say more about whether that is actually likely, in your view?