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You might have heard our discussion with the previous witnesses on collaboration in developing digital services. There seemed to be different views—I would not call it a disagreement—about whether such training existed in any adequate form or whether, in my words, things were a bit disjointed and sparse. Is there a role for Scotland’s universities and colleges in boosting and developing digital services with Scotland’s retail businesses? What role would the enterprise agencies play in that respect, given that you already have a training function? In asking that, I am referring back to our previous witnesses’ comments that they did not recognise much of what you were doing.

That question is for Hugh Lightbody.

Neil Francis, as the finger has been pointed at you, you might perhaps like to comment. Are we disjointed in our approach to developing digital services?

Nothing at all?

Carolyn, my final question is for you.

On the back of what you have been saying, could you indicate where you believe the healing process is at this point?

I am coming to that in due sequence, I hope.

CMAL awarded the contract in its capacity as the procuring authority. It expressed concerns about the absence of a full refund guarantee, and it put in place mitigations with regard to that. There is a question about the timing of that. FMEL did not say anything about being unable to comply with the terms of the tender until after the announcement was made, which is a bit odd. You would have thought that, at the time of responding to the tender document, it would have said, “No, we cannot comply with those bits.”

When the yard was nationalised, the assets in it must have been valued. Was their value comparable to the money that came in to produce them?

Is that not an area that it is important for us to look at? One of the key things that this committee does is follow the public pound; here, we have a situation in which tens of millions of pounds have been poured into a project with not that much to show, value-wise, at the end of it.

Are you considering doing such a review?

Did CMAL give a formal document with detailed concerns that got to ministers? I am asking you that question because I am not sure.