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That is the educational process that happens in parallel with, in addition to and prior to engagement with MSPs. I have a question about the Scottish Civic Forum's funding.
At present, the rule requires cross-party groups to have a minimum of five MSPs, with at least one member from each of the parties that are represented on the Parliamentary Bureau.
That progress is due in no small part to the efforts of Johann Lamont and other MSPs who have in recent months raised those issues on behalf of their constituents; Johann Lamont and those MSPs deserve credit for the action that we are now taking.
It should be made clear that that means MSPs other than the MSP who has asked the original question, so that the change will allow supplementaries to come from other people.
Again, without breaching any of the confidences of a bureau meeting, a particular business manager argued on the one hand that MSPs hate parts of the report and, on the other hand, that MSPs know nothing about it.