Committee
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee 21 February 2024
21 Feb 2024 · S6 · Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Item of business
New Petitions
Recreational Drones (Use in Nature Reserves) (PE2050)
I am grateful for all that. I wonder whether we might also write to the UK Government, since it is responsible for aviation. In this instance, I am quite interested to know its thoughts on a summarised version of the petition and the issues arising from it, and on whether there is a similar prevalence of drone use elsewhere within the UK and whether that may lead it to think afresh about any regulation of drone use. Are we content with all that? Members indicated agreement.
In the same item of business
The Convener
Con
Agenda item 3 is consideration of new petitions. As always, I say to people who might be joining us to hear their petition being considered for the first tim...
David Torrance
SNP
I wonder whether the committee would consider writing to NatureScot to ask for an updated view on concerns that it raised in 2018 about wildlife disturbance ...
Fergus Ewing
SNP
I want to make one suggestion and to put one point on the record. The suggestion is that, because drones are fairly widely used for various purposes, many of...
The Convener
Con
I am grateful for all that. I wonder whether we might also write to the UK Government, since it is responsible for aviation. In this instance, I am quite int...
The Convener
Con
Thank you very much. That was an interesting petition. We will keep it open and we will undertake the inquiries that we have just set out.