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No, I would not assume so.

Not you personally.

Well, I would take your guidance on that, I am sure.

If this committee were appointed as the lead committee on the moveable transactions bill, we would no doubt be looking to invite the lead on the work at the commission to appear before the committee. I am assuming that you would be happy to do that.

Excellent. I have one final question, which is perhaps one that Paul Sweeney might have raised if he was here.

You say that one of the obstacles is parliamentary time. One of the things that we discussed with Mr Garland involved capacity and the encouragement that could be given to members to introduce commission bills this session, as that would not put pressure on the Government’s parliamentary schedule. Would you be open to examining that?

I have a quick supplementary to that. In the Auditor General’s blog, he looks at income by college. Just to compare and contrast two colleges that have roughly the same total income—Ayrshire College at £51 million, and Glasgow Clyde College at just short of £50 million—Ayrshire College gets 5 per cent of its total income from other income, but Glasgow Clyde College gets 10 per cent of its income in that way. Is there any more work that can be done in the sector to engage in knowledge transfer or share best practice in order to maximise that other income? Obviously, we are aware that there are significant cost pressures coming through the Government funding route.

We have not really touched on the state of the college estate. The 2019 report identified quite significant capital expenditure challenges with that. I have two related questions about Covid and digital learning. Do those challenges mean that we might see a shift in the landscape of the college estate as more learning goes digital, if that indeed is what is happening? The report also identified a significant backlog of major capital investment in the college estate. Around the country, we can see that the cost of materials has surged, so does that mean that a problem that existed pre-Covid with the capital investment challenge could be a more significant problem after Covid?

I am also an MSP for South Scotland.

We have talked about the need for long-term financial planning and sustainability, and we have drawn some comfort from the Covid consequentials blip, which is obviously an operating surplus for this year. However, the Auditor General states in his blog that a significant number of colleges need to increase funding, cut costs, or do a combination of both in order to deliver balanced budgets. We know that non-government funding is reducing. How feasible is it for colleges to generate more funding, particularly as the sector seeks to recover from the Covid-related challenges?

Several previous Covid-related bills were considered in a very short timeframe, which is understandable, but will the committee have sufficient time to scrutinise any delegated powers under the coronavirus bill on compensation for self-isolation?

Okay.