However—and I hope that this is a constructive point—whatever ideologies members have, I hope that they can take on board how vital it is that our civil service in Scotland does not become divorced from the rest of the United Kingdom or elsewhere and the fact that the interchange in Scotland between the civil service and other parts of the public sector—and, indeed, the private sector—and between the civil service in Scotland and the civil service elsewhere helps to develop ideas, experience and careers and helps to secure the best...