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Absolutely not. There is £100 million, but that will not all be allocated in one financial year—it will be spread across a number of years in the same way as we are spreading the £500 million for the supply chain across a number of years. There is not yet £100 million-worth of activity and projects to fund, so we have to look at what funding is needed. That is why we have taken the approach of having Scottish Enterprise as our delivery partner. It speaks every day to companies that require funding, and we are working with it so that the funding is focused and achieves value. We are taking the approach of working with the sector to fill the gaps so that there is commercial realisation of innovation projects, for example, as we did with the hydrogen innovation scheme. The sector is looking for that approach from us, and that is what we are delivering.

I think that what I have set out totals quite a lot more than £10 million. A substantial amount of money has already been spent on hydrogen, but if the committee wants me to give a running total of the money that has been invested in green hydrogen, I can do so.

That £100 million fund was not for one financial year—it was over a number of years.

The offshore wind, hydrogen and green industrial strategies have been published, and our policy on renewables is already widely known. At the moment, I am finessing the energy strategy in the light of some developments that have happened in the UK, particularly in the Supreme Court. It is very important that we are alive to those developments. The First Minister made that point last week. It is important that our energy strategy takes into account the UK Government’s work on reserved issues, so that our energy strategy dovetails with that.

No, it is not difficult to prioritise putting money into the energy areas that we know need Government support, and I think that the budget does that very well.

We thought that track status was imminent—

—and, indeed, the cluster and sector as a whole thought that it was imminent. I think that some of your colleagues were also expecting it, given their comments in the press. We announced the £80 million because we wanted to be ready to assist the Scottish cluster once track status was given. Unfortunately, we are still waiting.

Yes.

Yes.

Well, he has just asked the same question, and I would give the same answer.

I have checked with my officials, and there is no funding allocation for the Climate Change Committee in our budget.