Chamber and committees

Good morning, minister and members of the panel. There are concerns that the debt advice and information package is too technical and too long and that it does not get key information across to people who are in debt. What is the Scottish Government doing to review the content of the leaflet and should it be available in an interactive format?

That is good news.

Minister, you will be making various regulations as part of the wider reform of diligence. I understand that some of those reforms may have a bigger effect than anything that is in the bill. Given their likely impact, will you commit to further public consultation on proposals relating to information disclosure orders, inhibition and summary warrant before doing so?

Good morning, panel. Your research proposes a series of indicators to measure whether a just transition has been delivered. Daria, you mentioned that in your opening remarks. Will you tell us a bit more about how you formulated the indicators and what evidence they were based on? Could the Scottish Government follow a similar process?

John Boland has hit on a good point there. What is the path? How is it accessible and who is it accessible to? That must be looked at.

Good morning. I will build on some of the things that Colin Smyth has been asking about. Is enough being done to reskill and upskill workers in the area? Can we do that better? What are the witnesses’ thoughts on where we go with that? If we have a huge skills gap, that presents a lot of opportunity for the future, so how do we support the workers to ensure that we get this right?

Thanks, convener. I have nothing to declare.

Colin Smyth’s line of questioning covered a lot of things that I was going to ask about. Aberdeen City Council has said that elements of the skills development infrastructure are in place, but

“there remains a cluttered and unclear landscape on both funding and delivery.”

Does the panel share that view? How do you feel about that? From the things that we have been saying about upskilling and so on, there are various things that the panel members are saying. How can the landscape be clearer? Would anyone like to come in? Maggie McGinlay, you are smiling.

No, I want to ask question 8.

I am interested in the future work that you talked about on intimidation, specifically in relation to women. Women get more abuse—and we get more sexist abuse—whether one is a candidate or a politician. How will you look at gender in that specific way, and do you work with organisations such as Engender, Elect Her and Women 50:50?

I do not have any questions on that, convener.