To ask the Presiding Officer, further to the answer to question S1W-579 by the Presiding Officer on 3 August 1999, whether that answer was based on advice from the Holyrood project team; whether the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) now accepts, following the Spencely Report's use of benchmarking, that it is a recognised technique for achieving best value in construction procurement to produce comparable construction costs; whether the SPCB now has access to the information requested in S1W-579 and what use it expects to make of bench-marking during the remainder of the implementation period for the Holyrood project.