Meeting of the Parliament 25 March 2026 [Draft]
I am in absolute agreement with Patrick Harvie on that point, and of course I will be leaving that message, worded in the strongest terms. However, for me, what needs to be done is more about building on the work that we have already done. As I highlighted in a previous response, we have established a food security unit to look ahead to any emerging threats and to deal with some of the big threats that we face at the moment, not least the threats that are posed by ecosystem degradation, which the report highlights.
We are undertaking important work in many areas and have already established some of the necessary foundational building blocks through the climate change plan and the nature restoration legislation. It is important that, in the next session of Parliament, those elements are delivered and built on, because we have to take action across all those areas if we want to ensure that we have food security and that we are resilient in the face of such challenges in the future.