Jim Mather was the minister who was previously responsible for European funding streams, and Alex Neil is the new cabinet secretary who will progress those issues, so the committee might want to take that up with them.We should be doing it anyway, but in straitened times it is even more important that we maximise the funds that we get from Europe and how and when we get them—for example, we can look at whether we can double up funding.In my previous role as Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning I was very keen to influence European funding, particularly to help young people who might be at risk of unemployment. Just as we were entering the recession...