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Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects
Meeting date: 8 December 2022
Richard Leonard
If I take myself as an example, I have a Covid passport, vaccination certificates and so on. Do I have a citizen’s ID?
Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects
Meeting date: 8 December 2022
Richard Leonard
May I finish on—I am sorry; I am not going to finish. I am going to allow Willie Coffey to come back in. I will then turn to my last question. Over to you, Willie.
Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects
Meeting date: 8 December 2022
Richard Leonard
You have not issued that to us yet.
Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects
Meeting date: 8 December 2022
Richard Leonard
Okay. I am just trying to understand. The project started in 2016. I presume that there must have been an understanding that staff training would be required before the system went live. Was that not planned in advance of the system going live?
Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects
Meeting date: 8 December 2022
Richard Leonard
Why has it taken six years in the first place? Is that not unusually long?
Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects
Meeting date: 8 December 2022
Richard Leonard
Okay. I am also bound to ask whether that is on budget.
Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects
Meeting date: 8 December 2022
Richard Leonard
Okay. Thanks for that answer and your other answers.
I thank Sharon Fairweather, Geoff Huggins and Yorath Turner for their contributions. That ends the public part of this morning’s session. We will now go into private session.
10:12 Meeting continued in private until 11:39.Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects
Meeting date: 8 December 2022
Richard Leonard
Okay, I will look keenly at the language that is used in that regard.
Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects
Meeting date: 8 December 2022
Richard Leonard
Do you not think that primary legislation would be required to do that?
Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects
Meeting date: 8 December 2022
Richard Leonard
For clarification, I would like to take you back to a couple of points that you made in your answers to Colin Beattie. First, will a project such as the proposed Highlands and Islands’ air traffic management system change or will the series of Police Scotland IT initiatives, which are listed in the programme—I think that there are four of those—get ministerial sign-off?
