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To be serious, we are out of time for parliamentary questions, but if anyone wants to inquire, the issue might be one for a Fife MSP to raise in the new parliamentary session.
I would welcome Mark Richards's comments on how substantial the test is as it applies to MSPs. How would it be interpreted by a court, rather than just by other MSPs?
I suggested that there could be a hotline via which Executive departments could tell MSPs the current factual position regarding issues that those MSPs want to raise.
On a point of order, Presiding Officer, George Lyon is not the local MSP for the Western Isles. You have got that on the record, although I think that the minister probably indicated that.