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In your letter to the Finance and Public Administration Committee, you stated:

“By providing leadership, focus and priority across public bodies further progress can be made for Scotland’s languages.”

I note the careful use of “Scotland’s languages”, rather than the title of the bill in that. Is legislation needed in order to do that?

Okay.

Michelle Thomson, thank you for your patience. It is over to you now.

That is the education provision. For other public bodies, I would refer back to the point about depth that you were discussing.

If we draw parallels with additional support for learning and the entire lifelong learning experience, you have the teacher numbers in your pack, and you are monitoring those, obviously, but what about those other things that will help to drive the upswell that you are looking for?

I like a wee quick answer. We move now to Willie Rennie.

Yes.

And the convener’s.

Claire Cullen would like to respond to that line of questioning.

That brings our evidence session this morning to a close.

I thank the Deputy First Minister and her team of officials for their time today and their very insightful evidence. That ends the public part of today’s meeting. We will consider our final agenda item in private.