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Amendment 77, in the name of Ross Greer, is in a group on its own.

I invite Ross Greer to wind up and to press or seek to withdraw amendment 33.

Amendment 3, in the name of the Deputy First Minister, is grouped with amendments 4 to 7.

Amendment 33, in the name of Ross Greer, is grouped with amendments 34, 54 and 68. If amendment 33 is agreed to, I cannot call amendment 34, because of a pre-emption.

More robust than normal?

If you are arguing that one cause could be that too many people are taking history and have not done the preparation, why was there such a fall this year?

To go back to the “Higher History Review 2024” report, the chart on page 36 is clear. In 2015, attainment was at 85 per cent; in 2016, it was 87 per cent; and it was subsequently 83 per cent, 83 per cent, 73 per cent, 78 per cent and 78 per cent—and then, in 2024, there is the fall to 66 per cent. Why would that be the case just this year, and not over the past couple of years?

I will let Pam Duncan-Glancy come in for a second, on that point.

Absolutely. John Mason is next.

You just said that it was co-ordinated ahead of you coming to committee.

We have to watch the time, because we are not allowed to meet while Parliament is meeting in the chamber. We have only a few more minutes, and the committee has other business. I would have liked to have been able to spend more time on the issue, but the committee genuinely appreciates the time that you have given us today.

Given what you have just said to Willie Rennie, if you are so confident in the report and so confident that the findings are clear and categorical, why not have a wholly independent review? Surely that would simply confirm everything that was in the internal review that was externally verified. That would then just be copied into a wholly independent review that would have the trust of teachers, students and markers.