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Funding for the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit for 2025-26 has not been reduced.The Scottish Government grant to the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit has been increased from £1.17 million in 2024-25 to just over £1.2 million for 2025-26.
I had some difficulty, Presiding Officer, but I will respond as best as I can. If I do not answer the question completely, maybe Mr Ruskell can write to me.
There is no provision for an annual uprating to be applied to the individual spine points, but the Determination allows for an annual spine point increase subject to the satisfactory performance of duties.
That is my point, Mr Johnston. Forgive me for pointing this out, but in your first response to my question, I think that you said that the 2018 spike was unpredicted.
Mr FitzPatrick made the very good point that we are accountable not solely to the Scottish Government, this committee, the Accounts Commission or Audit Scotland but to our own electorate, who will very much hold us to account to deliver services as best we can.
The final point on wellbeing and welfare is a very substantial point because it relates very directly to one of the other terms that Liz Smith used, which was the question of threshold.