Chamber and committees

There are no other questions from members. Is the committee content to recommend to the Parliament that consent should be given for the relevant provisions covered by LCM-S6-43 and LCM-S6-43a?

Members indicated agreement.

That is very helpful.

The other point that I was thinking about relates to those probably very infrequent circumstances when an officer’s status might change from witness to suspect. How does that work?

I have a couple of questions. The first is about the governance of the PIRC and the second is a more general question around the existence of commissioners, which I will explain in a moment.

On governance, I note that the Angiolini review stated:

“the Commissioner has confirmed that she is planning to transform the Audit and Accountability Committee into a more formal Board structure with non-executive members being appointed through a transparent public appointments process”.

Do you have an update on that recommendation? Have those changes been made? If so, are they sufficient? Are they working?

I confirm that we are looking at the LCMs.

Not at all. These things happen. Back to you, cabinet secretary.

Thank you, cabinet secretary.

I think that Katy Clark would like to ask a question. No? That is fine. Do any other members have any questions?

I thank the cabinet secretary for joining us. I briefly suspend the meeting to allow for a change of witnesses.

Thank you, cabinet secretary. I invite questions from members.

I am sure that there is a very small chance of it happening, but is there a risk that an officer’s status could change from being a witness to a suspect? That might present a slight challenge in relation to the duty of candour and compliance with a co-operative approach.

It was criminal.