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I do not know whether the committee has up-to-date information on complaints, such as how many are dealt with each year, how many emanate from the public and how many come from the police.
The culture lacked the rigour to require someone claiming back expenses to have receipts, and claims were processed without those being in place. 09:15 We identified a total of 84 items in the 19-month period from 1 April 2022 to 18 October 2023. The latter was the date when we carried out the audit, so the period extended beyond the financial year.
On 14 September, Neil Gray told the Scottish Parliament that the selection process and the decision on the investments had been agreed on the same date, 22 June. If I might test the convener’s indulgence, I will close my questioning with a question on spending.
You talk about the need to define “trauma-informed practice”, but the legislation does not do that; it simply says that the Lord President will decide at a later date what those arrangements will be.
In-year, we created more than £700 million of additional spending in order to afford public sector pay awards for 2022-23, and that has, in part, enabled us to avoid, to date, industrial action across our health service.
Unfortunately, the Scottish Government pushed very hard against that, so we have no examples of ecosystem-based FMPs in Scotland to date. It would be a requirement of any spatially managed area that we would introduce ecosystem-based fisheries management plans.
The work that we are doing to develop the new strategy is being done with stakeholders, and some of the questions are about up-to-date analysis. Some of that work was done before the pandemic and the cost of living crisis, but we are in a different environment now.
We will come back to consider those formally at a later date. We will now take evidence from the Minister for Public Finance, Planning and Community Wealth on the draft Budget (Scotland) Act 2022 Amendment Regulations 2023.
It certainly would, because there is no doubt in my mind that the fact that we had to make such significant legislative change—in extremis, twice, in the spring of 2020—indicates to us that our statute book is not up to date. Should provisions on the process for applying special restrictions and any subsequent appeals be included the bill?