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If we got to a point at which people had that choice in other parts of the UK but not in Scotland, would that mean that you could be forced to make such a change at a later date if you did not take care of it in this bill?
If it is purely a matter of saying, “While I’ve got you for a couple of seconds, can we get a date in the diary?” that would certainly not constitute regulated lobbying.
We know how much we have been allocated to date, and we know that our spend on Covid has more than exceeded the amount that has come from the UK Government in consequentials.
We have operated on that basis to date. If there is a scenario in which there is potentially more funding, that would be part of the wider Scottish Government plan.