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Your submission mentions that the capacity and capability review is looking at the impact of leaving the EU, and you say that you will need more money. Is there a date for completion of the review? Will it be completed before Brexit goes ahead in March 2019?
We were consulted last October on the white paper on trade policy. Within hours of the closing date of that consultation, the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Bill was tabled in Parliament.
What do you view as the key risk factors in delivering to that date? How are you mitigating them? The additional staff are coming in for the beginning of July.
Mr McNairney will correct me if I get this slightly wrong, but a good example to highlight is the reference to Longannet and Cockenzie in national planning framework 3, which I think came out in 2014—I am getting the nod, so I must be right about the date. After that framework was agreed, both plants were closed.
Those individuals often have chaotic lives and fail to appear for court, and, nationally, too little is being done to assist them to appear at court on the required date. For example, little use is made of stand-down reports.
As I said in my opening remarks, we will keep that under review but, to date, only three individuals have required support through the interim solution that we put in place.