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From your experience, what is the likely reaction of householders who have not previously had badgers visiting their garden if badgers begin to visit them?
Mr Giles, you said that you have 77 per cent of the visiting examiners that you need. As I understand it, those examiners, if they are not already visiting schools, should be preparing to visit them.
It would be to the Parliament's credit, in bringing a new democracy to Scotland to start the new century, if we were to assert the fact that the Parliament is not just Edinburgh's, but Scotland's.
We take the matter seriously and we are making progress. Last week, I announced the new housebuilding figures for this year, which show a rise in the number of new starts from 6,400 to 7,100 this year and to 8,000 next year.
The committee will be aware that we have completed an interim report on women's offending and that we visited Cornton Vale with members of the Justice 1 Committee.