My officials will liaise with your clerk and the clerk to the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee to ensure that our response to your Committee’s report, including the update to the Financial Memorandum, is provided at least four weeks in advance of the Stage 1 debate (not including the Christmas and New Year recess). In terms of the expenditure on the NCS programme to date, the Financial Memorandum covers the range of costs relating to the development and implementation of provisions in the Bill.