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What I cannot say today—we can come back to the committee in writing on this—is whether the level of estimated fraud has translated to any recoveries or precise accurate calculations on top of the estimates that were produced.
It may take litigation to work out whether, and if so how, the law has changed as a result of the reversal of the hierarchy. On top of that, we have the question of whether the Government will exercise the power to restore the status quo.
Our main frustration is with the delay in implementing the alternative dispute resolution meetings pilot. We appreciate that that is not a top priority and that Covid has had an impact on implementation, but there is a danger of the process getting overly complicated and unnecessarily delayed.
The Scottish Government has already topped up the Scottish welfare fund with an additional £45 million to take cognisance of issues such as Temporary loss of sound.
Parliament is busy anyway, and Brexit has come on top of that. Emma Harper asked how much had been spent on overtime and what the impact has been on flexitime.
We aim to do that from the bottom up, through our knowledge of individual public bodies, and from the top down, thinking about issues such as opencast coal mining and the parallels for other public bodies.
It does not mean that fish have not died or that fish will not die in a few weeks’ time when the same uncontrollable event happens, either in the same place or somewhere further up the coast.