Chamber and committees

We will leave that just now, then, if that is okay. I am sorry—I misunderstood. I thought that you wanted to come in on that particular topic. Ms McNeill is next.

Are members content to delegate to me the publication of a short report that summarises the outcome of our deliberations on the LCM?

Members indicated agreement.

The issue will now move to the chamber for all members to decide on the basis of our report.

Once we have that information and clarification back, do we have a broad timescale for the next stage?

Thank you. We move on to questions. We have an informal running order, but there is quite a lot that we would like to get through this morning.

Ms Clark, would you like to pick up the questions from there?

We are aware that there is on-going legal action, so we should not discuss the specifics of the case, but I am comfortable with members asking questions on wider issues that arise from it.

I can bring you back in.

With regard to the proposed consultation on the health and wellbeing strategy for prisons, we had, as we have mentioned, an interesting visit last week to HMP Edinburgh, where we had discussions about the profile of the population that is cared for there. I found the discussion really interesting and extremely insightful. I am also interested to hear about how we care for people who are in police custody. Are there approaches that are based on human rights and are holistic, and which might use the opportunity of a person being in police custody to implement a wraparound rapid crisis response in order to turn a negative experience into a positive one? Do you have any plans to extend health and wellbeing strategies in prisons to police custody settings?

It is great to hear that, and I acknowledge what is being done. It is important that we recognise that. I have a final question on the role of the third sector in that big piece of work. We should make sure that we support the third sector, as we all know about the amazing and vital contribution that it makes. Will consideration be given to making sufficient funding and support available for the third sector, particularly as we come out of Covid?