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Are you able to measure how our offices have contributed to that? Thank you, Mr Brown. Just before I answer, because I will answer, you mentioned haggis earlier and the issues in Canada.
Before I go into the four that I have written down, I would say that one of the issues with the Artificial Intelligence Act is that, under it, if something is high risk, you need to report. What Keith Brown is suggesting would apply even beyond the high-risk cases.
We have received apologies from Keith Brown and Patrick Harvie. Jackie Dunbar, who will be joining us shortly, will substitute for Keith Brown, and Gillian Mackay will substitute for Patrick Harvie.
We are getting towards the end of the first cycle of reporting to the committee, so we will no doubt have lessons to learn, but I think we are heading in the right direction. I go back to Mr Brown’s point about scrutiny and how it has operated elsewhere.
I do not know how many of you remember Gordon Brown’s efforts to lower the public sector debt, because we were aspiring to join the euro at that time—halcyon days.
I should say that I am not sure that Mr Yousaf was the lead minister for the project at any point—I think that it was Keith Brown. Yes. And then Michael Matheson.
We now know from internal emails that were released in 2019 that there was an email to Keith Brown on 20 August 2015, copying in Alexander Anderson, the senior special adviser to the First Minister.
I am pleased to welcome our second panel of witnesses: Keith Brown, the Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans, and Mr Willie Cowan, the deputy director of the Scottish Government criminal justice division.