Meeting of the Parliament 06 January 2026
I am genuinely listening to what Mr Whitfield is saying, and I am trying to work out what is best to do. I wonder whether the committee convener can help me understand something. People who are watching these proceedings will see a sanction being applied for a breach of the rules, which is to be a two-day suspension. People will have been watching the Parliament earlier on and will have seen that a cabinet secretary has been found, on two counts, to be in breach of the ministerial code, and has come before the Parliament to give a statement and carry out the remedy that was advised in that case. I worry that people will be looking at these proceedings and asking whether the sanction that has been handed out by the committee is proportionate. Can the convener help me understand?