00:00The government that's setting out will help to achieve that objective.
00:04Moving on, it has been reported in The Sun that yourself and other Scottish Government
00:07officials were given an advance site of the Peter Merle indictment.
00:11Why did you get this 33-day advance?
00:14This is a live criminal case and I'm not going to make any comment about it.
00:19Why was it not made public earlier? This was known then?
00:22This is a live criminal case and I'm not going to make any comment on it.
00:25Will you be making a statement at some point on this issue?
00:28Parliament has got to be very clear about the importance of respecting the independence
00:34of the criminal process within our country and within our courts and I intend to respect that.
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