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We will come on to all those issues in committee members’ questions.

Does Andrew Bradshaw want to say anything about overall provision at the moment and what the bill could achieve?

Andrew, in your written submission, you said that the estimated primary school allocation of £300 to £400

“is considered too low to deliver high-quality provision that maximises impact.”

What should the figure be?

You also said in your submission that you acknowledge the challenge of modelling and coming up with such figures. It will be difficult to do that, will it not?

It is because they have that interest and want to share it with others and their pupils.

I thank all of you for your evidence today. Andrew Bradshaw said that he would go back and ask his members some of these questions, and it would be very helpful if he could feed any responses back to the committee. Thank you for your previous submissions and the evidence that you have given us today.

I suspend the meeting until 10:45, when we will resume with our second panel.

It is not just 50 minutes, though. It involves coaching through the week and speaking to pupils who have an interest in football and getting them involved. That takes several hours, and there will be weekend football matches as well. I do not know any teacher who coaches for just 50 minutes once a week. It is more substantial than that.

You mentioned negative impacts on the current provision. What are they?

I suppose the question that I am asking is: has the number increased?

I am referring to the number of pupils that you cannot take for safety reasons.

Good. On behalf of the committee, I thank you all for your evidence. Phil Thompson said at the start that we have not heard many voices of young people so far. I think that you have been able to articulate those voices in your testimonies, whether that is through the words of Nevis or with the accounts of what parents and teachers have said. It has been extremely useful to get that on the record, because we will be able to use it in our considerations. We have, however, had a number of submissions from young people to our call for evidence—in fact, a higher number than we have received for most of the other calls for evidence that we have put out. What you have said today matches what we have already heard from young people, who are very impressed with what they receive when they go to outdoor education centres. Thank you very much for your time and your evidence.