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The Executive's response is that because this is a new situation—there will be a new commissioner, a new act and a new way of doing things—it is not certain how things will shake down.
However, we will consider pilot schemes for the return of scripts in future.On the use of new markers, it is clear that any system would require new markers to enter it.
It is important to acknowledge the critical significance for any new organisation of being able to establish itself, to settle in and to put in place structures that will last.
However, it is slightly harder to see how the structure that Murdo Fraser suggests would feed into the committee's business growth inquiry unless we started an entirely new chapter, which might take us in a completely new direction.
Finally, will he advise whether he has ruled out new build in Peebles? I do not mean to be personal, Presiding Officer, but I am sorry that Sir David Steel is not here.