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I hope that we can address the issues that have been raised in this debate and the committee report, and seek to progress the bill in the current session of Parliament.15:26 This debate has been useful. It was led by Bill Butler and included a contribution from Bill Aitken, who ably set out the committee’s position.
As I said when we discussed the previous group, only 26 such referrals were made to the SCRA in 2009-10 across all the court proceedings that are identified in section 60.
That prompts the question that Michael Matheson put: how much of the framework has been implemented?I turn to page 26 of the document, which is on early years.
With that, there comes a professional self-confidence and a view that services are being evaluated dispassionately and separately from the quality of the day-to-day activities that people undertake. You said that 26 out of the 32 councils have completed the process.
We have also discussed embedding the 26 weeks end-to-end process time for the criminal justice system in the performance framework as a policing objective and outcome, while looking for the partners in policing to accept their share of responsibility.
The futures trust could sit at the centre of its web operating as an insurance fund. If it kept the risk premiums for each scheme and then paid out up to a defined limit when one scheme went wrong, that would not involve windfall profits for individual contractors.