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I will bring in Ms Casot at this point and then go to Ms Reeves for a comment about the wellbeing work.

Sorry, Ms Reeves—we lost your feed for a moment. Can you start again?

I do not see anyone else indicating that they wish to contribute. The concerns from the different areas of the sector have been well voiced this morning. Thank you very much for your contributions. I suspend the meeting while we have a changeover of witnesses.

We move to evidence from our second panel. I welcome Iain Munro, who is chief executive of Creative Scotland, and Isabel Davis, who is executive director of Screen Scotland. I remind everybody to try to be succinct, as we want to get in as many opportunities for questions as possible. I invite Donald Cameron to start.

Indeed. We heard last week from the Stove Network in Dumfries about support not just for culture that is already here but for new culture that is just being created, so I think that your comments just there were helpful, Mr Munro.

We have another question about museums. I remind people to put an R in the chat if they wish to comment. Ms Minto’s question will be for Ms Casot again, I think.

We have a bit of a problem with the connection. Can we switch off Ms Davis’s camera? I hope that we will then be able to hear her.

Are you still with us, Ms Davis? We lost you for a while.

—[Inaudible.] particularly that last comment from Ms Boyack. I will go to Ms Reeves first. I remind witnesses that, if they want to come in on a particular question that was not directed to them, they should put an R in the chat.

Good morning, and a warm welcome to the fifth meeting in 2021 of the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee. As a result of a membership change, this will be Sue Webber’s last appearance. I thank her for her contribution; we wish you well for your new parliamentary duties.

Agenda item 1 is to decide whether we take the evidence that we have heard today in private. Do we agree to take item 4 in private?

Members indicated agreement.

Thank you.