Chamber and committees

Thanks very much, Fulton. We would welcome the opportunity to hear more about what was discussed.

I must bring the evidence session to a close, because we are running over time. I thank all our witnesses for joining us today. We will summarise the views that have been shared this morning and send them in a letter to the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, which is the lead committee for the bill.

Our next meeting is on Wednesday 7 December, when we will hear from the Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans on the UK Government’s Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill.

As previously agreed, we will now move into private session.

Before I bring things to a close, I will go back to the emergency budget review, and I have a quick question in relation to the UK-wide emergency services mobile communication programme. Obviously, the most recent update from the review was that the Scottish Government will cut £14.2 million from a

“projected saving on the Scottish Government contribution towards”

the programme. Can you expand a little on what is being reduced and what impact that might have on Police Scotland and Scottish Fire and Rescue? Will the roll-out of the new radio systems for police officers be affected?

Can we take it from that that, although there are a lot of questions, ultimately, the roll-out would not be affected?

Thank you, Anil.

You all mentioned that there is a big piece of work to be done on co-design and understanding what the proposal will look like. The proposed plan is for there to be a consultation on criminal justice social work. What would you like that consultation process to focus on? What would you like to come out of it around priorities for how criminal justice social work continues to deliver the best possible service?

I call Russell Findlay.

Russell Findlay will return to the issue of prisons in his questions, and we will pick up questions on policing after that.

If there are no more questions on prisons, we will move on to policing. I bring Pauline McNeill back in.

I think that the cabinet secretary has answered your question, Mr Findlay. In the spirit of moving things on, I bring in Jamie Greene.

Rona Mackay has some questions about gender-based abuse.

Pauline McNeill, I think that you wanted to come in on that.