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First, we had Jack "Magic Circle" McConnell; then we had Angus "Smoke and Mirrors" MacKay; now we have Andy Kerr, the latest graduate of the Hogwarts school of economics.
We will certainly refer the paper to the new committee. We have previously indicated that the present committee would prefer to give the new committee a steer.
I want to draw our discussion to a close. Do members wish to add anything new? No. Do members agree that my suggestions and Stewart Stevenson's suggestions are the key points?
Alternatively, we could have evidence-hearing sessions in the morning and the afternoon on a Tuesday in the new year. That would give us flexibility and would mean that we do not put too much pressure on the clerks.
Thank you.Items in Private Items in Private I propose that we take items 5, 6 and the new item 7—which concerns the alleged unauthorised disclosure of a draft Education, Culture and Sport Committee report—in private session.
I do not want to say very much by way of introduction. In the latest Scottish budget document we have attempted to take on board some of the comments that the committee has made in previous years.