Chamber and committees

Do you want to bring Kate Ramsden in, too, Collette?

I think that you perhaps covered that in your previous answer, cabinet secretary, but I am happy for you to follow it up, if you wish.

I notice that you mentioned body-worn cameras in your reply. I will open questions up to members now and, if we have time, we can come back to that topic later.

Sticking with the theme of budgets, Katy Clark has a question.

Thank you very much indeed.

I will bring this evidence session to a close. I thank the cabinet secretary and his officials for attending this morning. As usual, if members have any follow-up questions, we will pick those up in writing. We will have a short suspension to allow for a change of officials.

Our next item of business is consideration of an affirmative Scottish statutory instrument. I refer members to paper 3.

I welcome back Keith Brown, Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans. I also welcome his officials: Walter Drummond-Murray, head of civil courts, inquiries, private and international law and central authority at the Scottish Government; and Emma Thomson from the Scottish Government legal directorate.

I invite the cabinet secretary to make a short statement on the SSI.

I thank the cabinet secretary and his officials for attending. That concludes our consideration of the SSI. We will suspend the meeting briefly to allow for a change of witnesses.

Thank you. I open the questioning to members, starting with Fulton MacGregor.

I gently ask witnesses to keep their answers as succinct as possible. That will allow us to ask as many questions as we can.

I call Rona Mackay.

We have run slightly over time. However, Fulton MacGregor wants to come in very briefly, and I must ask for succinct responses.