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Okay. We can see the Expedia stuff, but it would be really interesting to get information on the TikToks of the world. Thank you.

Thank you very much.

When you receive data from companies, you have to trust those companies, without a doubt. In relation to the younger market—people who use TikTok and YouTube—how do you get a sense of whether what you are doing is working in bringing young people to Scotland? Is the data trustworthy?

I will be very brief, having given a very good example that was highly rated by service users.

I want to ask about the voices of lived experience and what works for those people. Are we taking cognisance of what those voices have to say? It might well be that the NHS and the third sector think that something is quite good, but the reality is that the folks who need those services do not necessarily share that view.

Good morning. I smiled a fair bit when Sheghley Ogilvie mentioned three-year spending reviews, because UK three-year spending reviews did not always formulate into logical budgets over those three years.

I will go on the trust aspect, because that is very important. Ian Bruce talked about how local authorities are allowed to build reserves. The reality is that, in Scotland at this moment, some local authorities have huge reserves that they should be spending, but others have next to nothing. Would it be easier to garner trust if there was multiyear funding, with the ability to see what organisations were doing over three, five or however many years?

Has that trust waned because funding is not so readily available—because we are in a belt-tightening situation due to continued austerity?

I will be very brief.

You have highlighted some of the Government’s ambitions for delivery. Let us take the ambition to meet the Promise. Earlier, Mr Westwater talked about some longer-term agreements. Should framework agreements with organisations for the delivery of policies such as the Promise be established? Short answers would be great.

I am glad to hear about the engagement, but I am one of those folks who disna like to see the reinvention of the wheel. We must look at best practice to ensure that the secondary legislation and guidance are right.

The Government, along with Fife Council and third sector partners, ran a pilot scheme at Queen Margaret hospital that applied trauma-informed practice. It was extremely successful in housing folk, and it dramatically changed the way in which health service staff, including doctors and nurses, worked with people. Protocols were in place for that pilot. Have we looked at them and are we going to apply them to the secondary legislation and the guidance, or are we going to ignore them?

I get that point about co-design, co-production and co-operation but, with regard to scrutiny, there comes a point where, if a body is not doing what it needs to be doing—such as adhering to the SHORE standards—there has to be a way of holding that body accountable. How are you holding the Prison Service accountable for not reaching the standards?

Gentlemen, do you have anything to add to that?