Chamber and committees

You said that, post Covid, there has been an increase in collaboration, but it is still difficult to get a feel for how significant that collaboration is. Is it just one or two odd projects here and there?

It seems to be hard to get your head around what the total scope of this is.

I am not clear on the scale of that, though. You would think that the NHS would be an obvious partner that you deal with.

What are the barriers to escalating the collaboration to a better level? Is there recalcitrance on the part of one party or another?

I have a couple of questions on diligence reform. Sarah-Jayne Dunn is front and centre on that, but if Becca Stacey would like to add anything, she should not hesitate to come in.

My first question is about calls to reform diligence against earnings to, for example, increase the amount that is protected from creditors, or to build in consideration of family size when calculating deductions—I can see issues around that in particular. Does that issue impact on your clients? Do you support such reform?

I am talking about them collaborating with the NHS.

It came up in the committee in the previous session of Parliament, and a report came out from the committee at that point.

Correct me if I am wrong, but are information disclosure orders applicable only to the private sector and not the public sector?

I will ask a fairly obvious question. With a unified health service such as the NHS, you would think that there might be an opportunity for the industry in Scotland to collaborate. From what I have read, I am not sure what level of collaboration there is, if any. What would be the benefits of such collaboration?

Pre Covid, which arrived a couple of years ago, was there more collaboration than there is post Covid?