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The business of the house is scheduled to turn this subject at 4pm on Tuesday, which is quite late in the day, so the time available for "debate" could be quite limited. We've been hearing from some of those PMS savers who will be protesting at the opening session of the Assembly, but I wonder who will be voicing their concerns from the floor at Tuesday's session. They say they feel betrayed, and they are very angry with Church House officials who appeared, at the outset of the crisis, to be distancing the church from the Mutual Society.

The Clerk of the General Assembly, Dr Donald Watts, told our programme that there was no effort to distance the church from the crisis, even though that's how some savers read the church's insistence that the organisations are "legally separate".

On Tuesday, the Assembly will be asked to receive a report about the church's handling of the crisis, and that report reveals that Church House officials were given a private briefing about the Society's serious financial problems by the chair of the Mutual Society's board of directors before any members of the Society were informed. Officials may claim that this briefing was merely "a matter of courtesy", but this kind of close association will again raise questions from savers about the precise nature of the relationship between the church and the mutual. For savers, like the two who shared their anger on today's programme, this kind of briefing adds more weight to the moral case for increased financial assistance from the church.

On Tuesday, we will find out what view the church's ministers and elders take of the church's handling of this crisis, and we'll find out how they propose to respond to church members who feel betrayed.