Colleagues from CEC and TIE are on record, I am glad to say, as saying that they found the discussions that they had with us and any informal advice that they received to be helpful.As for our future role, we have agreed, with ministers’ endorsement, to participate in the mediation talks, because there is clearly a collective will among many parties—with a small ‘p’—in Scotland to secure progress in this difficult project.Ministers have said that now is not the right time, in advance of the mediation talks, to discuss future governance.