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I turn to my colleague Alasdair Smith to give a little more detail. As Susan Rice has described, the dates at which the changes were introduced in our forecasts are the dates that were announced by the Scottish Government for the doubling of the payment and its introduction for eligible families with children between...
Members of the Scottish Parliament—in particular, those who have constituency interests—will, rightly, want to be kept up to date. That is why I was keen to make my statement and take questions before the election recess.
Her interim report, which was published before summer recess, provides an opportunity for the Government to make changes quickly to the handling of police complaints.
The Cass review has got nothing to do with the election, and he promised that there would be a statement before recess. There is no reason for this whatsoever.
Will the First Minister commit to ensuring that the Parliament will have time to scrutinise it before summer recess? Will it still contain the presumption against new oil and gas that was consulted on?
He also knows what is being done elsewhere in the United Kingdom and what is working. Before the recess, I believed that Thursday’s debate was a promising start.