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Gavin Brown will have welcomed the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth’s undertaking that such targets will apply to payments for Government contracts, and not just to the main contractor but to subcontractors from the small business sector.
As I said, members are free to lodge amendments on specific areas if they are not happy with the way the Government has responded.Does Gavin Brown want to comment? Yes. We raised a couple of issues last time.
It is important that the details as well as the principle are right. What Robert Brown said has much merit. It is clear that any Administration will use the emergency legislation procedure only sparingly.
We acknowledge a lot of the points that Robert Brown has made. Following the provisional conclusions of the BBC Trust, I encourage members to keep up the campaign that has been started, if they feel strongly about it.
Their main point concerned the preparation of food, which Keith Brown and David McLetchie have spoken about, and they stressed the need for clarification of the rules.
As the error involved a discrepancy of £700,000, the cost would have been an awful lot higher if it had not been picked up. Indeed. You said to Robert Brown that most people who require the order will access it online.
We have received apologies from Jamie McGrigor and I welcome Gavin Brown in his place. We also have apologies from Clare Adamson—I welcome David Torrance to the committee.
I am certainly happy to take up that issue with Keith Brown, the Minister for Transport and Veterans, to ensure that there is a proper, joined-up approach.