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Could that link into the target to decarbonise all public buildings as we move towards the hospitals and major national health service facilities that have huge heat demands?

I have questions about the whole thing. Was the Scottish Government developing a set of due diligence measures on forest risk commodities last year, when the bill was being developed?

So what will success look like? Is it about maintaining the 2.5 per cent viewing share?

Thank you very much, convener. I look forward to the work ahead. I have nothing to declare.

I will wrap up on a couple of points that have been made. The Ofcom review suggests that there should be more of a spread of public service media across different providers. How would that affect the BBC’s relationship with such providers? Its relationship with some online providers has certainly been a bit frosty. Would spreading public service media across different providers improve the relationship, or would it provide a challenge? Would there still be partnership, or would that lead to more competition?

One part of that ecology, as you call it, is the Kelvin hall studio. What contribution do you think will be made through that capacity? How will it enhance the entire sector’s ability to produce content in Scotland?

Those answers have been really interesting in highlighting the pressing problems that you face at the moment.

However, I want to pull back out to the bigger picture. Scotland’s national performance framework has four indicators on the dashboard for measuring our cultural health: attendance at cultural events; participation in activity; growth in the cultural economy; and the number of people working in arts and culture. Are they adequate in describing or showing us the health of the sector and our cultural health more broadly? Looking at your submissions, I have to wonder whether the metric with regard to the number of people working in arts and culture, in particular, adequately describes what is going on with regard to fair work, insecurity of contracts and other such issues. Could that be improved, or are the metrics on that dashboard the right ones to be thinking about as we recover from Covid?

So the Kelvin hall has very much been factored into your strategic development.

Finally, the metrics for the BBC Scotland digital channel that you have talked about this morning, such as the 2.5 per cent viewing share, compare very well with those for other digital channels, but does the fact that you are doing pretty well compared with those channels act as something of a comfort zone in which you think, “Everything’s great”? What are your long-term aspirations for the channel? If, as I hope, they are about substantial growth, what will trigger that? Will it require a big drama such as the major hit “Keeping Faith”, which originated on S4C and then went on to the BBC? Is it that type of trigger that will get more people to watch BBC Scotland or will it be, say, a big news event such as indyref 2? What drives that kind of aspiration? Is it more about slow, continual, moderate growth instead?

It is a very quick one. Clearly, the cultural sector and cultural activity are hugely important in their own right. However, is what the sector does for the rest of society being captured by funding streams? Some cultural organisations do a lot of regeneration and placemaking work. Can they get access to funding to do that kind of stuff, which does not easily fit into one box?