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Good morning, cabinet secretary. My first question is about the fact that ScotRail and Caledonian Sleeper are already in public ownership. Do you have any concerns that the legislation that is coming through will force Scottish ministers always to consider public ownership first and that it will take away the Scottish Government’s right to move services to a private company?

I am sorry, but will the committee get to see the appraisal?

Okay—thank you.

A GIQ is coming on that.

I guess from that answer, however, that a lot of local authorities will not be getting too excited. They will feel that extra money will be given on one hand and taken away on the other, because you cannot really give them assurance that it is additionality.

I just want to double check something with regard to an issue that Jackie Dunbar raised. Will the extra money that comes into local authorities from EPR be seen as additionality? Because of the money coming in from EPR, will the Scottish Government look to rein some of that back in and reduce their block grant?

No, it is not.

What has the appraisal, which has already been done, shown? Will that be released to the committee?

Okay. I will move to the next question. Have Scottish businesses or stakeholders raised any specific concerns with you about the impact of the EPR on packaging?

Have we learned from other countries already? Has that behaviour changed and has packaging changed?