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I have it here. I have not added up how many lines there are on the pages and pages of report that have been provided showing directives that have come from the European Union but which you have not brought forward. There is a column here on future consideration—it goes on and on and on; there are pages of it. I want to get a sense of how pragmatic you are being about this unending wave upon wave of directives from Brussels.

I am just drawing the cabinet secretary’s attention to the current flow of opinion among mainstream political leadership in the European Union. I quoted Emmanuel Macron and Mario Draghi has produced a significant report produced. There is a mood in Brussels to deregulate, to free up economies from the stranglehold of the regulation that has been layered on over the decades. The only point that I am making to the cabinet secretary is that we should get into that mainstream as well and—I think that, except for one or two members of the committee, we all agree on this—understand that economic growth comes about as you free up the economy and allow it to expand and grow.

I was asking whether you agreed with that. That was my question.

The answers are very long and I know that we do not have very much time.

Also because of the politics.

If the Commission acceded to the request that the architects had all agreed among themselves, it would see that as a threat to the agreement itself—I get that. Convener, have I used up all my time?

Is the conclusion to that that it is easier for service-orientated businesses and individuals to trade in, for example, the United States than in the EU?

When it comes to the EU, are there any statistics on what sectors we are talking about within the generic term “services”? Do we have a breakdown? Financial services were mentioned but I have not heard any of the others mentioned. We took evidence from the legal sector last week. What are the other main sectors, and how would you apportion the split by importance?

I would like us to try to get our arms around what we are talking about. We are exclusively talking about services here. The UK is currently the third biggest exporter to the European Union, with 7.1 per cent of the entire EU imports being from the UK. Can someone tell me, as a matter of fact, the split between services and goods of the $193 billion of trade that we do with the EU? I presume that it is predominantly services. Can anyone cast any light on that? Professor Barnard, you are nodding.

Which sectors have been particularly negatively impacted?