Chamber and committees

I know that other members want to look at individual areas of the police budget and, before we move on from COP26, I have a quick question. A lot of overtime will arise from COP26, so will the provision include overtime costs, or will that have to be managed separately?

If members are happy, we will move on from COP26. A number of members would like to look at specific areas of policing and policy. I will bring Rona Mackay back in, then Collette Stevenson.

Yes, but I ask that you respectfully confine your questioning to budget provision and considerations.

Does Collette Stevenson want to come in? I have a final follow-up question.

I thank you all for your attendance. It has been a really useful session. If you have any follow-up information that might be helpful to the committee, that would be welcome, and we will obviously take it into account.

We will have a five-minute break before we move on to our next agenda item.

I have a follow-up question. We have been looking at custody provision. As a former officer, I know that there is good custody provision and not-so-good custody provision across the estate in Scotland. Was custody provision looked at specifically as part of the survey? Could you comment on any particular plans from a budget perspective for improving some of the custody provision that needs to be improved?

That would be helpful—thank you.

If there are no more questions on the capital budget side of things, we will move on to look at Covid and the 26th UN climate change conference of the parties—COP26—on which Russell Findlay has some questions.

The next agenda item is consideration of a paper from the clerks on a United Kingdom Parliament bill. I refer members to paper 4. Since we last agreed to publish a short legislative consent report on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee has published a report and has highlighted a couple of issues, which are outlined in the paper. It is suggested that we update our planned report and publish it now.

We should note that the Scottish Government plans to produce a supplementary legislative consent memorandum in due course. We can consider the issue of extraction of information from digital devices then.

Do members agree that we should update our draft report, as is suggested in paper 4, and that we should ask the clerks to make arrangements for publication?

Members indicated agreement.

I ask that you keep your answer as brief as you can, so that I can let other members in before we close the meeting.

I will bring Pauline McNeill in that case.