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—for good reason, in some regards.

From what you are saying, a lot of that is down to the fact that the design was not there.

You talked about that lass crying about the investment money. What is morale like among the workforce? Are they positive for the future? Are they up for it, basically?

Would you say that an anchoring system is quite a simplistic technology?

You say that the item was used and there were no issues, yet it had not been signed off at that particular point in time for whatever reason, as Mr Petticrew has just said. Why did it take reaching another point in time to recognise that the anchor equipment was not the right stuff?

Although I am the grandson of a shipbuilder, I would not claim to know a huge amount about shipbuilding, but I would say that anchoring technology is pretty old. How can you get that wrong?

Mr Thomson is enticing me to start talking about just transition for oil and gas, but I will not do that.

I will not.

Mr Thomson, you have painted quite a picture of where you and the workforce think that we are at. You have made some points about what you have called a “distorted picture” of the finances and “a revaluation of assets”. That really requires further probing and I would not oppose your suggestion of an independent review.

I have Sharon Graham’s letter to Ed Miliband in front of me. There are some interesting things in the letter, such as the Rodeo refinery being repurposed in one year and a short transition at Lysekil in Sweden preserving all 400 jobs and creating 50 new ones at what looks like the reasonable cost of £730 million. You have referred often to the union report attached to that letter, but we do not have it in front of us. I understand that it is sitting with Ed Miliband and that you await his reply. I do not want to be a cynic, but it may well be a long while before that reply comes, so, if you are waiting for a reply in order to release the report, it may be a long time before we see it. My plea to you and to Unite the union is, at the very least, to release the report to the committee so that we can look at everything with the granularity that you obviously want from us.

Thank you.

Thank you. You said that you welcomed the openness and transparency of this forum and the ability to relay the viewpoints of Unite and the workforce to the public. If the report had been released to us, the lines of questioning might have been different, which might have led to our being able to be much more open and transparent about the Grangemouth story and how we could deal with the current situation and the future.

I want to pick up on the point about energy security but also to go back to something that you said earlier, Mr Thomson. You said that there was a point when the Finnart pipeline was offline and that crude oil from the Forties pipeline was being used at the refinery. The indication that we were given before was that crude from the Forties pipeline was not being used because it was not the right grade of crude. Just for the record, could you comment on that again?

Thank you—that is useful.

I am a member of Unison.