Chamber and committees

It is, indeed, extremely difficult.

We will now move to questions from other members. Pam Duncan-Glancy is joining us online.

To continue with that theme, we move to James Dornan, who joins us online.

That is positive news on multiyear funding. The issue has been raised with us frequently in the committee, so it would be helpful if you would keep us updated on that.

We move to questions from the deputy convener, Emma Roddick.

We now move on to questions from Foysol Choudhury, who is joining us online.

We will go back to Pam Duncan-Glancy, who joins us online.

I thank you and your officials, cabinet secretary, for joining us. We will take a five-minute comfort break.

We will now move into private session. Members who are joining us remotely should use the Teams link in their calendars to join the meeting.

Emma Roddick will finish our questions for today.

Welcome back, everyone. We move to agenda item 3. I refer members to paper 3, which relates to the committee’s child poverty and parental employment inquiry. To assist the committee with consideration of its next steps, we are invited to consider and agree to discuss further approaches, evidence received, correspondence and draft reports in private at future meetings. Are we agreed?

Members Indicated agreement.