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On my travels, not least as a Highland MSP, I often hear that connectivity, especially in rural areas, is a barrier to small businesses getting online.
We have done the assessment and taken into account all the local factors, the access, and so on, and then we reach out to MSPs— With respect, I am aware of that.
Nevertheless, given the wide variety of people attending the meeting, it would be really interesting to hear your advice on how we, as MSPs, can better address those issues.
We have received apologies from Mairi Gougeon MSP and Jackson Carlaw MSP. The first item of business is our third evidence session in our inquiry into Scotland’s screen sector.
I apologise for cutting you off, and I apologise to the rest of the witnesses and the MSPs. I am loth to deny an individual MSP questions on a strong constituency interest, and it is valid to push such interests—that is why we have committees in Parliament—but we have drifted away from the underlying question that Ke...
The petitioners are in the gallery this morning, and I also welcome to the meeting a number of non-committee MSPs: Neil Findlay, Jackson Carlaw, John Scott and Alex Neil.