Chamber and committees

Can I press you on that? We would have to find the money now. Maybe the savings would come along in a few years, but we would have to look at this year’s budget. It has been suggested that £580 million might be on the low side. Do you have any suggestions about where that money should come from? Should we raise taxes or cut the Scottish child payment? What should we do?

Is that your final word? You do not say whether you are satisfied or dissatisfied; you just say that it is tricky.

If you would not suggest cuts, would you suggest tax increases?

Have the panel members any suggestions about what improvements could be made to bring the child disability payment, adult disability payment and pension age disability payment more into line with each other? I agree with Mr Stachura that it is useful for all the names to be the same, but that in itself can make people think that the rules will all be the same. Have you any suggestions about how things might be improved?

That is fair enough. I will come to Ms Howard at the end, because she is the one with oversight of everything. Ms Horne, do you have any comment on that?

That is great. Thanks very much.

Would there have been issues as to exactly what the money was going to be used for? A buggy is a positive thing that gets people to the shops and up and down the road, as compared to a car, which most of us now see as not a good thing, because we want to reduce the number of cars. Is that a factor?

Mr Stachura, do you want to come in?

I get that.

Ms Howard, do you want to say something about that?

Are you not rather ducking out of that?