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Thank you.

Are you content with that, Pauline?

That brings me on to paper 5, which covers the final two related instruments—SSI 2022/101 and SSI 2022/103. Do members wish to make any comments over and above what we have already discussed? Otherwise, we will consider the SSIs as coming into force, while agreeing to consider further offline the potential unintended consequences of the measures.

Are members happy with that? Are we in agreement?

Members indicated agreement.

I have the same note on my action plan. I would be very interested to hear more about that provision, and I think that it is appropriate to ask for more detail on the women’s justice leadership panel.

Your remarks are noted. I am certainly not going to attempt to anticipate any of that, but we can take what you have said forward.

Do members have any other comments about the submissions, or are we happy to move on? I found the Police Scotland submission quite comprehensive, and I was very pleased to see reference to the draft strategy that it is developing with regard to violence against women and girls. I would quite like to hear a little bit more about that, but I am sure that that information will be provided down the line. I was also pleased to hear about the multi-agency seminar on the draft strategy that was convened by the Scottish Police Authority and which included a broad range of stakeholders.

It is good to see that some progress has been made on Police Scotland’s stalking and harassment standard operating procedure and that training has been delivered to police officers—I could be wrong, but I think that it was provided to detectives—by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust. I am interested in knowing whether that training will happen regularly or whether it is just a one-off, given that it would be of value and relevant to officers as they change roles and responsibilities. I was pleased to see those updates from Police Scotland.

Agreed.

Thank you for that. The only point that I would make is that this is the first time that we have revisited the action plan. I like the document visually, and I think that it is helpful for the public in allowing them to go in and get a broad idea of where we—parliamentarians, the Government and others—are in relation to various issues. This is a changing document, and I hope that its colours will change over time but, at this stage, I am comfortable with where we are. However, it is helpful to hear members’ comments and suggestions so that we can make the document as useful and as valuable as possible.

Pauline, did you want to come in?

That is not clear and perhaps that should be part of the request that we send to the Lord President.

Paper 4 covers the next two instruments—SSI 2022/79 and SSI 2022/80. Does members have any comments to make? If not, we will consider the SSIs as coming into force.

Moving on to page 8, I have to say that what jumped out at me was the issue of residential rehabilitation and “funding for improved provision”.

Back in March, there was a debate in Parliament on a person-centred, trauma-informed public health approach to substance use in the justice system. Reference was made to funding support and plans for residential rehabilitation. We might be able to provide an update on that in the plan.

Okay—thank you.

We have already spoken about purposeful activity, so we will move on to page 11. We have spoken a little bit about the misuse of drugs and the criminal justice system already.