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I welcome, with Keith Brown, Jonathan Dennis, who is economic adviser to Transport Scotland, and Dr Katherine Falconer, who is head of the sustainable transport team at Transport Scotland.
We should couch things in terms of the level at which a crime was originally prosecuted. I am not with Robert Brown on the issue of general indictment.
The difficulty, which we have had before, lies in part with the powers of direction. I met the chair of OSCR and Ewan Brown, the director of creative Scotland, and we had a positive discussion.
If he wrote it into his contract that no damages could be claimed, he might shoot himself in both feet simultaneously. Mr Brown's point is nonetheless well made.
As Donald Cameron reflected, it is for the Parliament to decide not only what scrutiny looks like, but what the process for that scrutiny is. Keith Brown raised a point about the imposition of laws on Scotland.
I direct the committee to my Digby Brown response, which makes a call for a change in the law in relation to the ability to pursue litigation where the entities are defunct.
I echo Malcolm Gardner’s comment that the technology is there. As Keith Brown said, the data is already held at various levels of Government; it is about joining that up.