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Having taken evidence and had detailed discussions with stakeholders and officials, Brian Pack has put the Macaulay institute to work on running a number of different models.
I welcome Angela Constance, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, and her supporting officials. I invite the cabinet secretary to make some opening remarks.
We will absolutely not be in the position where ministers can ring up and say, “Do this.” If ministers or their officials ring up and ask us to help them with something, we will look at it and ask whether it is part of our remit.
I am tempted to make quite a long comment, but it would not look good in the Official Report. I think that Mr Thompson has got his wires slightly crossed on the issue.
Therefore, we can give a pretty good sense of where things have changed over the two years since the most recent official figures came out. They show broadly what I have suggested.