Clerk to the Committee:

Deputy McDonald raised the issue. The jobs committee has examined the procurement issue and I am working on pulling that into our brief. The finance and public expenditure and reform committee are to examine it next week or the week afterwards. I wanted to leave some time in order to pull in as much information as possible. We will bring in representatives of the Small Firms Association and the association representing companies which provide stationary and related items for schools. It is in the programme but I wanted to allow some time before dealing with it.