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What Steve has said raises an interesting point. Today or yesterday, there was something in the news about, I think, the Prime Minister, raising a point about the validation of e-commerce and signatures coming through the electronic mail.
Are we considering the batch of papers that begins with a letter to you dated 7 February, convener? Yes. That is the one. I have one point and one question. The point is about the estimated costs of agenda for change.
I am not suggesting that the justice budget is a flat-line budget; I am suggesting that we have an opportunity to review, year on year, how best we can use those resources. Increases are available to us and we must consider where some of the pressure points will be in the future.
It is a myth to suggest that Scotland alone can manage the biological resource in Scotland's best interest. Will the minister take an intervention on that point?