Parliamentary Bureau Motions

Part of the debate – in the Scottish Parliament at 5:35 pm on 10 December 2025.

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Photo of Tim Eagle Tim Eagle Conservative 5:35, 10 December 2025

I say to Mr Halcro Johnston that anybody who votes for the SSI tonight is, in my opinion, mad, because, given that what the SNP Government said that it would deliver and what it actually has delivered are so far apart, they could not possibly be brought together. It is crazy to vote for that. Suddenly, in this SSI, under the new greening rules, if someone has more than 15 hectares of arable or even temporary grassland, they will have to set aside 5 per cent, which is soon to be 7 per cent. I have no idea why it is 7 per cent—we have just plucked that out of thin air.