Chamber and committees

Am I right in assuming that there would be no issues regarding data protection or the general data protection regulation in respect of the two separate organisations if the information was input once and then transferred to the other register?

Is the committee content with the instruments?

Members indicated agreement.

Under agenda item 6, we are considering a document that has been laid before the Parliament for approval, on which no points have been raised.

It certainly was helpful. Thank you. Are you aware of any particular difficulties for the small business sector in accessing invoice financing in Scotland? If so, what impact does that have?

It would be helpful if you could do that now.

Before we move on to the next round of questions, we will suspend briefly to deal with a minor technical issue in the room.

Jeremy Balfour will ask the next question.

Thank you.

I have a final question, which follows on from an earlier line of questioning from Jeremy Balfour. If, at some point in the future, you felt that the registers were not being updated and people were not being removed from them, what would be your process to contact the lenders to ask for particular examples of individuals who are potentially still on the register but should not be?

As members have no more questions, I thank Jennifer Henderson, Jon Hodge and Cat Haig for their help. As I said to the first panel, the committee may follow up by letter with any additional questions stemming from today’s session.

I suspend the meeting briefly to allow the witnesses to leave.