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In some contracts, increased inflation will have to be taken into account, and the higher interest payments will have to be met by the public purse.Mr Brown has certainly raised a substantive issue.
I seem to remember that my contribution ended bang on time.I take it that the committee endorses the proposals for 2009. Following the points that Gavin Brown and David Whitton made, we will consider feeding the theme into our inquiries and work with the Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism on putting things together for next year.
That is the clearest possible answer that Mr Brown could be looking for on how the initiative fits into the Government's wider programme of delivering a more efficient and simpler structure of government in Scotland.
He has not been courteous or respectful and he should withdraw the allegation and apologise profusely to the chief planner. Robert Brown has a point of order, which I will take now.
Does he recall his answer to my colleague Gavin Brown on 14 June—112 long days ago—when the cabinet secretary said almost exactly the same thing:"We are developing our plans to deliver the commitment, and we intend to publish them in due course"?
Following the ONS decision of 25 September 2013 to retain its approach to classification, Mr Brown made a commitment to take forward legislation to remove the power—and here I am today.
I said that in response to a question—I think it was from Gavin Brown—about what had happened since the written report that I provided to the committee in the middle of October.