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I will have to read that exchange in the Official Report—I was reading something else and did not hear Robert Brown's previous question.I want to go back to the point that Robert Brown made about the attitude of high street lenders.
I am sure that the minister's civil servants either watch the committee meeting or read the Official Report. We can only hope that they will give due weight to the unequivocal views of committee members on the subject.
We have had some productive meetings with Scottish Executive officials in the past few months, and we have cleared up a few queries about the definition, which is a bit tighter.
Normally the focus is on successful entrepreneurs and what causes success, but there must be just as much to learn from failure, which is the other side of the coin. I agree. We did not find evidence of that.