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That might have been a Parliamentary Bureau paper right at the beginning of the session.

If I give you an actual figure, I will paint myself into a corner, but we are probably looking at 40-ish between now and the end of the year. That could be 41, 42 or 39. We are there or thereabouts, depending on how things go and what happens. “Events, dear boy, events” can take over and cause us to change things. We are looking at about 40-ish SSIs, with the emphasis on “ish”.

That is a very technical question, so I will bring in Gordon Johnstone again.

I came in and said, “I am not having any of that.” No, I am only joking. [Laughter.]

As I said earlier on, as part of the strategic review, we are taking the opportunity to look at a better way of working with committees and ensuring that information gets to them. We will look at our practice within the strategic review and we will come back to this committee and others once we have done so. As I said earlier, we are going to take a step back and look at everything to see what is and is not working. Working alongside the committee, if we think that there is another way forward, we will look at that as well.

I am glad that Mr Sweeney said that we have managed to deal with a lot of the historical commitments that were pursued by predecessor committees. The simple answer is that we are still committed to making sure that we get the work done. Some things have been on-going.

I had thought that I might be asked about that, so I asked what we have on the decks and what is still there that we can get done and clear out. That is one of the things that I would like to do, but, as with all things in life, sometimes it is a wee bit complicated.

This time last year, when I first came to the committee, Karen Auchincloss’s predecessor told me that the Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Bill was a perfect example of the Government working with the SLC to ensure that things are brought forward. That bill then became quite difficult and complex. It is such a complex and technical bill that I said to Karen’s predecessor that I thought of it as the unmovable objects bill because it did not seem to move. I sat here and told the committee that we would go forward with that, but then we hit difficulties and quite a lot of issues had to be solved. Rachel Rayner may be able to say more about that.

That is an example of the difficulties and complexities of some SLC bills.

I am happy to look at that, Mr Simpson.

But the development of the policy—how it gets to that position—is what takes the time.

You did ask for a template.