 I welcome members to the fifth meeting of the devolution for others powers committee of 2016. As usual, can I remind members to switch off their phones or put them in a mode that we can't be interfering with our business? We have apologies from Alison Johnson. The first item today involves the consideration of a letter from Rob Gibson, MSP detailing the rule of affairs climate change environment committee's view of the crown estate draft memorandum of understanding in the draft transfer scheme. It may be appropriate, given that the same convener is a member of our committee. Rob, would you like to make any comments? I would indeed. I think that what we have uncovered is a memorandum of understanding, which is not a legal document but a means of working between the Treasury or the UK Government and the Scottish ministers. Nevertheless, it throws out many, many questions that we need to bottom out. It appears as though to us that there hasn't been a lot of discussion about this and the detail till very, very recently. It asks the question, in my view, given the number of points that we have made here about how we are going to suggest that this process goes forward and that we need to find a way to make sure that the Scottish Government understands that the Parliament needs to know a good deal more about the process and its involvement, because the scheme that has laid out is going to come into effect after the due date. However, our Parliament will be dealing with aspects of the Scotland Act of its past after the election in May and that we need to have an early ability to have an influence over that. Therefore, the process that my committee has put forward would have to be taken forward by a successor committee or committees in order that the Scottish Parliament has input to and can question A, the Scottish Government, and B, the UK Government. It is essential that we do, given many of the details in here, which are as yet unclear. Obviously, your letter lays out a number of areas for this committee to consider. One of the issues that is clear to my mind is that, in due course, there will be a statutory instrument at the UK Parliament approving this, but at this stage there is no role for the Scottish Parliament in approving the statutory instrument that is establishing the scheme. I thought that one of the things that we should be considering is what role the Parliament would have in the future on any successor committee in that. I agree with that, convener. I thought that Mr Gibson's remarks were entirely spot-on. It seems to me occasionally that this is a memorandum of non-understanding, rather a memorandum of understanding. In the correspondence that you are planning to initiate, convener, you would also look to ask our Government here in Scotland about its policy in relation to the transfer-e body. In other words, what will take over and run the Crown of State once the transfer takes place? My principal interest in that is double devolution and how that will be taken forward for the islands, which, as you will recall from the Smith commission, has set out clearly what further aspirations it had in this area. That seems to me to matter simply because there is not much point in having a transfer and then transfer again. There may be a mechanism to look at that carefully when whatever Government we have at that point has the opportunity to consider that no doubt in conjunction and in consultation with the affected local authorities. That is a reasonable point. In which case, given the contents of the letter from the rule affairs and climate change committee, do we agree that there are a number of issues in there that we require to address in regard to letters to the Majesty's treasury, the Scottish Government and the Crown of State? In drawing those letters together, the deputy convener Duncan MacNeill and I should sign them off when the clerks have prepared them. Is that a reasonable position for the committee to accept? I thank you, colleagues. We will now move into private, but next week, just before we do that, next week we will consider further draft reports on the Scotland Bill and post-study work visas in private next week.