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The principle needs to be cleared up with the Minister for Finance and Public Services when he comes before the committee in October. As I understand it, the latest position is that the £500 million will be in cash savings.
He also said that the level of scrutiny—which in the past would have meant the relevant House of Commons committee scrutinising such work—has not existed before because we are in a wholly new context. That is the point: we are in a wholly new context.
Does the First Minister agree that, 300 years on, and after two sessions of the new Scottish Parliament, the time is now right for a serious debate about the future of Scotland's Parliament?
It is right that we allow proper time for that and that we ensure that the new, incoming Parliament makes its decisions on those complex, interrelated matters on the basis of the information that has been collected.