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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 10 July 2025
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Rural Affairs and Islands Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: 1 May 2024

Finlay Carson

I appreciate that. Thank you very much.

Rural Affairs and Islands Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: 1 May 2024

Finlay Carson

Going back to transparency and data sharing, you touched on the idea of making some of the data publicly available. There are gaping holes in the draft instrument before us, however, and it does not address a lot of the concerns that would naturally arise from that. There is a lack of clarity about how the data will be managed, and there are questions about how it will be stored, who will be the data controller, who will have access to it and how it will be used for wider science and monitoring purposes. Surely it should have been made quite clear in the instrument how the data was going to be used. Given the commercial sensitivity, alarm bells are sounded, in particular, when you suggest that some of the information might be available to the public. You have said that you might want to do that, but nowhere in the instrument have you set out what constraints and regulations there will be around how Government deals with the data.

Rural Affairs and Islands Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: 1 May 2024

Finlay Carson

That is all very well, but should that not have been specified in the instrument? We are expected to vote to introduce the regulations, but there are not actually any safeguards, and we are just taking your word for it that the data will only be used in certain ways. Why were those details not included, to give some certainty and transparency about how the Government intends to use the data?

Rural Affairs and Islands Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: 1 May 2024

Finlay Carson

There is one question that I do not think that we have covered. Given that the specification and the annual costs that are set out in the BRIA are being disputed, has any consideration been given to providing grant funding to ensure that those boats can upgrade to the technical specification?

Rural Affairs and Islands Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: 1 May 2024

Finlay Carson

Thank you. I do not believe that we have any further questions.

We move to the next agenda item, which is the formal consideration of the motion to approve the instrument. I invite the cabinet secretary to move motion S6M-12641.

Motion moved,

That the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee recommends that the Sea Fisheries (Remote Electronic Monitoring and Regulation of Scallop Fishing) (Scotland) Regulations 2024 be approved.鈥擺Mairi Gougeon.]

Rural Affairs and Islands Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: 1 May 2024

Finlay Carson

Does any member wish to debate the motion?

Rural Affairs and Islands Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: 1 May 2024

Finlay Carson

Is the committee content to delegate authority to me to sign off our report on the instrument?

Members indicated agreement.

Rural Affairs and Islands Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: 1 May 2024

Finlay Carson

Thank you very much, cabinet secretary. I will kick off with questions. Does the Scottish Government intend to fulfil its commitment under the Bute house agreement to implement vessel tracking and monitoring across the whole commercial fishing fleet by the end of this parliamentary session?

Rural Affairs and Islands Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: 1 May 2024

Finlay Carson

Thank you. We will move on to a question from Alasdair Allan.

Rural Affairs and Islands Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: 1 May 2024

Finlay Carson

You said that you are able to deal with situations in which the issue is outwith the skipper鈥檚 control. What are the tools to do that? Will there potentially be an exemption? If, for example, there are no cameras available because they are all being used or are on a lorry going across to the Western Isles, is that a situation in which the flexibility that you have, to use your words, could be used to put in place an exemption?