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Ms Dunbar, are you clearer?

We are being asked to determine something today on behalf of the Parliament, and then the matter will go to the full Parliament. I would have hoped that that information might have been available to members.

I will bring in Jackie Dunbar.

Sorry, minister. We have it on the record that it was agreed that it would be implemented incrementally. However, were there issues with the software and information technology over the period?

Covid would not have prevented a digital system from being set up and programmed.

In your Government’s memorandum on the bill, you say in paragraph 11 that

“the Bill risks undermining other types of outdoor learning”.

Can you explain how it would do that?

Do you have any evidence to suggest that, where local authorities use outdoor education centres, it undermines the other types of outdoor learning that they are doing? Can you back that up with evidence from local authorities or anywhere else?

I am not saying that you have to put the papers in today. I am asking whether the minister with responsibility for the bill is minded to submit a financial resolution, given that she tells us—and we are supposed to believe that she is being truthful—that she is neutral on the bill.

What discussions have you had with other ministerial or Cabinet colleagues on a financial resolution?

The committee must now produce a report on the draft instrument. Is the committee content to delegate responsibility to me as convener to agree the report on behalf of the committee?

I am not planning the report at all; it will be drafted by the clerking team. All that I said in response to Mr Wilks was that we will reflect the conversation that we have had. I think that I am correct in saying that my questions were replicated by others, such as by Pam Duncan-Glancy.