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Can I suggest that we invite Leon Thompson to answer that question, as that will mean that all members of the panel will have had an opportunity to answer before we move on to Maggie Chapman?

Do you know what the timescales are for the provisions in question to be repealed and the Procurement Bill to supersede them?

Thank you. I call Michelle Thomson.

You have highlighted the three areas and there are on-going discussions with UK Government officials, but what is the timescale? When will we know the outcome of those discussions?

Thank you, minister. I will take questions from members.

I welcome to the meeting Ivan McKee, the Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise, who is joined by Ninian Christie, solicitor, and Rebecca Winterstein, head of capital investment at the Scottish Government. I invite the minister to make a short opening statement on the draft order.

Colin Beattie is attending remotely this morning.

The motion is agreed to and the draft order is therefore approved. The committee will publish a short report on the decision soon.

I thank the minister and his officials for joining us. I will suspend the meeting briefly to allow a change of witnesses.

This is probably a simple question and I am misunderstanding what is before us. Currently the situation is that if it is a reserved organisation or is cross-border, this will not change the way in which—

What is a practical example of that?