Chamber and committees

Thank you for clarifying that.

I invite Donald Cameron to come in.

Item 2 is a Scottish Government update. We will take evidence from Angus Robertson, the Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs and Culture, on the Scottish Government’s priorities relating to the remit of the committee. The cabinet secretary is joined by Donald Cameron, who is the deputy director of the constitution and United Kingdom relations division, and Euan Page, who is the head of UK frameworks. Welcome to the committee. I invite Mr Robertson to make an opening statement.

I hope that we can ask questions in a logical order this morning. Obviously, the committee has a wide remit, so we will start with the constitution, move on to Europe and external relations and then finish with culture. I hope that that is helpful to know. Members should bear that in mind when they are requesting supplementary questions.

I open by thanking the cabinet secretary for your letter last week to the committee that explained the Scottish Government’s position on a lot of the issues. In it, you state:

“Work is ongoing to fully map out and understand the Act’s impact: it will take time to fully grasp its implications”.

Will you say a little bit more about that work and whether it will be published and made available to the committee for scrutiny?

Yes, indeed.

We will now move on to the culture part of the committee’s remit, which the cabinet secretary mentioned. I invite Ms Webber to open the questioning.

We may have exhausted the questions. It has been quite an eclectic session.

Thank you, cabinet secretary. We have covered a broad range of topics. We have had two touring funds, two gaming industries and two Donald Camerons and we have still managed to get here. We thank you and your officials for your attendance.

Thank you. I move to questions from members.

Mr Robertson, I am not sure where that time limit has come from. We are happy to continue. If you were under the impression that you had only an hour and now need to go, that is fine, but the committee thought that the session would be 90 minutes.

Your answer was relevant, because you talked about funding that comes from the lottery.