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What contact have you had with the Scottish higher education minister, Jamie Hepburn, whom I referred to earlier? I think that we all agree that the issue is a Scottish Government responsibility. What contact have you had with him, what has he said to you and how many people has he been able to help?

George Boyne, I am quite interested in finding out how dependent the viability of our current business model is on international students. I am hearing that they are critically important.

I am anxious about that exposure. For example, Aberdeen has a Confucius Institute. How much income comes to Aberdeen through hosting that Confucius Institute?

My question is for Ellie Gomersall and is on the subject that we have just been covering. What do you expect to happen with the rent freeze? Do you realise that all international studies and experiences show that the rental sector will shrink with a rent freeze?

So you—

No—that is the number of students. I am talking about Scottish students.

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Thank you.

You said that you are not directly involved in discussions with the UK Government on the contents of, or the methodology that will be applied in, the proposed EU retained law bill. Does that exclude the possibility that other parts of the Scottish Government might be talking to their UK Government counterparts in order to assess what the bill would mean?