Chamber and committees

You note that setting out how to implement your recommendations was beyond the scope of the review. Nonetheless, you have been immersed in and have a good in-depth knowledge of the system. What is the biggest single barrier to successfully realising the vision for Scotland’s skills system that you have outlined?

You say that there is no single barrier to the realisation of the vision, but that it might be different for component parts. If that is so and if the vision is different for the component parts, will that not lead to fragmentation? There should be one vision. The barriers should be fairly self-evident within that. How do you avoid the fragmentation that comes with having your universities here and your Skills Development Scotland there and so on? How do you see that coming together?

I want to get in my head what dimensions we are talking about here. How many arrestments do you deal with in a year, roughly?

Do the sheriff officers have a view?

Perhaps I can ask the sheriff officers if they have a view.

The debt advice and information package is a key tool for communication with debtors. Are there ways in which its use could be improved? I put that to Cheryl Hynd first.

To bring you back to the original question, what barriers are there to realising the changes?

You mentioned that it is not a big booklet but that people have a block against reading it.

You said “more concise”. You were talking about a fairly modestly sized leaflet a few minutes ago.

How can we make it more concise?