The next item is the Scottish Criminal Record Office inquiry. This item caused the agenda to be amended. Members will know from their briefing papers that the Executive issued its response to the report of our SCRO inquiry on Friday. As this is the last meeting in the session of the Justice 1 Committee, I thought that it was appropriate to squeeze the item into today's agenda to enable members to put on the record, if they wish to do so, their comments on the Executive's response.
Yes.
That tends to indicate that the inquiry was an important use of our time. We added value to the overall work that was headed by David Mulhern. As we have said at previous meetings, the recommendations are crucial to the future of the service, so we hope that, in future, the Parliament will continue to scrutinise the work that has been done by the committee.
Absolutely.
Does anyone else wish to comment?
We could just note the response.
It is worth noting.
We agree to note the Executive's response and welcome its adoption of all the main recommendations in the committee report. We will say in our legacy paper that we think that such work is important and that it should continue in the future.
Meeting continued in private until 12:25.
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