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Will you be able to tell us at some future point when your office first received legal advice that that was the most likely outcome of the case?

Thank you for that. We will move straight to members’ questions.

I understand all that. I am just asking you what the impact of that measure is on young people. Maybe you will come back and tell us what the mental and physical impact is, because there is an impact.

How much will it cost to make all the structural changes regarding the SQA? Nowhere does it say how much has been set aside or how much it is anticipated that replacing the SQA will cost. What do you expect the cost will be of carrying out those reforms?

Could you write to the committee to give us that information?

Skills gaps in our economy are not a new story. We can go back to any year in the past 20 years and find warnings and reports about them. We certainly face a challenge with skills gaps now as our economy restarts. To what extent are those skills gaps structural? What is stopping us training people to move into those shortage areas?

I will elaborate a bit more. In 2014, the Care Inspectorate highlighted shortages of trained staff in social care. There have been various reports about hospitality, and there is a particular crunch in digital. What is stopping us training people? Are the gaps structural?

As we all are. It is good to hear that, cabinet secretary.

I thank the cabinet secretary and Graeme Logan for joining us. Today’s meeting is now at an end. Parliament will be in recess for two weeks, so our next meeting will be on 27 October.

Have you received anything from the sub-group about the impact that the conditions in which young people are attending school are having on them?

That was very good.

What did it say?