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The Committee issued the call for evidence to 106 individuals and organisations and also promoted it on its website and via twitter. Although this is a reform to a technical area of the law, its provisions will affect a broad spectrum of society, not just the legal fraternity.
A summary of the issues that were discussed at the meeting has been posted on the sustainable Scotland website today. I thank the First Minister for the commitments that he made in that reply.
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.
We are examining pension arrangements and have been in touch with the Strathclyde pension fund to ensure that the employees who transfer across can remain with that fund.