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On a slightly different matter, but one that is still to do with the OECD, how have the impacts on the college and training sectors been factored into any responses to the OECD report that you have made to date?

Is that the message that you will be taking forward?

I suspect that you will give a statement at some stage. Nonetheless, will your implementation of the report reflect the OECD’s suggested approach?

I will follow on from what we have heard from my two colleagues who spoke previously. Last year was unique, but how did the SQA ensure that that year’s results were consistent across the country? Fiona Robertson has not spoken in any detail about that. We have heard from Willie Rennie and others that local authorities and schools were doing things in slightly different ways, so how did the SQA ensure that results were consistent?

A wide range of things is looked at. That is very helpful.

I am not sure whether this question is for Gill Stewart or for Fiona Robertson. What role did the SQA play in the overall quality assurance process?

I have a question on the same topic for Fiona Robertson. What role did the SQA have in feeding into what that quality assurance was going to look like?

I have been a member of the education committee in previous sessions and I have not always been kind to the SQA, but I am not sure that there was an awful lot more that it could have done in the circumstances that were thrust on it on this occasion.

I am fine, thank you.

To be fair, the evidence that I have heard so far has been pretty good. Obviously, there are clear issues relating to the final stages, but I was wondering about the fact that we are talking about the apprenticeships being part of the end of the process. I know that the OECD did not write the report on the upper secondary assessment, but how does it see the work of integrating the foundation apprentices being best built on? How might existing mindsets be shifted to ensure that that work is easier?

Yes. I found the previous intervention highly embarrassing for the committee. The OECD is an internationally respected organisation. Oliver Mundell seems to have a conspiracy theory that the Scottish Government has power over all sorts of international bodies and that, if they do not do exactly what he wants, some conspiracy is going on. It is unacceptable for the OECD to come here in good faith, take questions and get such abuse from a member who is trying to—