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The Climate Change Plan modelling takes into account the EU ETS cap for the traded sector to 2020. In subsequent years, the Climate Change Plan modelling uses actual emissions from the traded sector rather than reflecting the impact of the ETS cap. This reflects the fact that individual countries' share of the cap beyond 2020 have yet to be determined.

The impact of the UK's exit from the EU on the role of emissions trading was not factored into the draft Plan since the UK Government has not yet taken a position on the UK's future relationship with the EU ETS. The EU ETS remains a fundamental part of UK and Scottish climate change legislation.

The Scottish Government is undertaking further runs of the TIMES model to incorporate updated sector assumptions and reflect the Scottish Government’s latest policies and proposals. These will inform the final Climate Change plan.

The Scottish Government is undertaking further runs of the TIMES model to incorporate updated sector assumptions and reflect the Scottish Government’s latest policies and proposals. These will inform the final Climate Change plan.

We continue to use the Element Energy research, commissioned by Transport Scotland, to inform the development of the Transport emissions envelopes. Element Energy's work offers additional detail over the core TIMES Transport module. For instance, the Element Energy project included the construction of a detailed Scottish vehicle database, including number, age and turnover of the Scottish vehicle parc, a peer review of their database of technology costs across transport modes (used to refine their cost models for alternative fuels and technologies) and finally used their consumer demand model to develop realistic scenarios for the take up of alternatively fuelled vehicles, particularly cars. The share of each fuel type flowing into the Transport sector and the Transport emissions envelopes, resulting from the Element energy analysis, have been coded into TIMES, such that their impacts on the wider energy system would be costed and considered.

The Scottish Government has no plan to monitor the implementation of the exemption on tail docking for working dogs.

The Scottish Government has no information on further work required to understand the differences in the experience of pain incurred through tail surgery in dogs. The Scottish Government will continue to monitor research on the effects of tail docking in lambs and piglets, which may be relevant to the possible effects of tail shortening in puppies.

No meetings or discussions have taken place in 2017 between the Scottish Government and onshore petroleum exploration and development licence owners regarding its position on unconventional oil and gas.

No fracking or drilling for coal bed methane can take place in Scotland as a result of the moratorium this Government has put in place.

Ministers received the report and recommendations from the reporter on this planning proposal on 22 December 2016. Ministers are currently giving full and proper consideration to it. Every effort is being made to issue the decision as soon as possible.

I can confirm that neither the First Minister nor Scottish Ministers have met formally with Judy Murray since December 2015. No Scottish Government Official has met Judy Murray since December 2015, although she did provide evidence at the Park of Keir inquiry, chaired by a DPEA reporter, which took place from Monday 5 to Wednesday 14 September 2016.

The Scottish Government was unable to provide an answer within the 10 counting day deadline because it was waiting for a third party to provide the necessary information; in this instance the membership of a newly formed working group.

The standard Scottish Government process ensures that if a written parliamentary question is not answered within 10 counting days (20 days during recess) then a holding reply will automatically be issued. The substantive answer reiterated the information on the website, but was delayed going through the drafting and parliamentary process.

It is considered that despite the delay, the process is consistent with the Scottish Ministerial Code, with Ministers and officials acting in good faith and always have regard to the terms of the Scottish Ministerial Code when answering parliamentary questions.

Ministers received the report and recommendations from the reporter on this planning proposal on 1 June 2017. Ministers are currently giving full and proper consideration to it.