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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 27 April 2025
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Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]

Scottish Water Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24

Meeting date: 1 April 2025

Mark Ruskell

We will see. [Laughter.]

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]

Scottish Water Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24

Meeting date: 1 April 2025

Mark Ruskell

I mean senior management. Do they get paid a double bonus at the end of a regulatory period?

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]

Scottish Water Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24

Meeting date: 1 April 2025

Mark Ruskell

What does it look like now, what has it looked like in the past, and how is it going to change?

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]

Scottish Water Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24

Meeting date: 1 April 2025

Mark Ruskell

I think that you are about halfway towards net zero and you have 10 years to get there. Can you say a bit more about what the key challenges will be for the next 10 years?

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]

Scottish Water Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24

Meeting date: 1 April 2025

Mark Ruskell

Would you say that your approach is, in effect, about insetting? You have land assets such as the site at Loch Katrine where you can invest in order to capture carbon, but it is quite sticky to reduce the emissions from the industrial aspects of your work. Operationally, where do you strike the balance? You could go really hard on investing in industrial processes in order to squeeze every last gram of carbon out of that, or you could lean more into insetting and using your other assets. Everyone will rely increasingly on Scotland’s land in order to lock up carbon, but only a certain amount of land is available to those who are not fortunate enough to have a catchment such as the one at Loch Katrine in their asset base.

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]

Petition

Meeting date: 1 April 2025

Mark Ruskell

I think that we should hold an evidence session, to which we should invite the petitioner and other relevant stakeholders. We should also write to the Government and stakeholders to get written views.

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]

Scottish Water Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24

Meeting date: 1 April 2025

Mark Ruskell

Okay. In relation to the overall objectives of the directives and the policies that arise from them, you do not have a concern about the direction of travel or the limits. It is more about having time for implementation. Is that correct?

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]

Scottish Water Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24

Meeting date: 1 April 2025

Mark Ruskell

Right. Recently, you influenced the Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025—which the committee discussed last week—in relation to the spreading of sewage sludge and cadmium levels. You are a public corporation, so you have a role to work with the Government and ministers and their objectives. However, there is a feedback role as well.

I am interested in whether there are areas in which you think that the Government needs to hold back or change deadlines. You seem to be saying that it is for you to accept the view of the Government and to implement it, but sludge disposal is clearly an area in which you called for a change and, as a result, the Government changed the regulations.

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]

Scottish Water Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24

Meeting date: 1 April 2025

Mark Ruskell

Okay. Thank you.

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]

Scottish Water Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24

Meeting date: 1 April 2025

Mark Ruskell

Is that a yes?