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I feel as though we have talked about the lack of post-legislative scrutiny for 20 years or something like that, and the point that I used to make was that it has to connect to pre-legislative scrutiny. To carry out proper post-legislative scrutiny, you must have a pre-legislative process that sets out the exact aims...
I completely understand the desire to have that detail, but I cannot pre-empt the spending review or the budget that Shona Robison is working on, which will set out all the detail.
There is a piece of work to be done there. We have not looked at the pre-school piece of the jigsaw to date, although that is something that we can do.
Pre-budget Scrutiny 2024-25 The second item is an evidence session as part of the committee’s pre-budget scrutiny ahead of the publication of the Scottish budget for 2024-25.
It has been suggested, for example, that staff numbers in certain areas would return to pre-Covid levels. I was not suggesting that there should be specific targets necessarily, if that is what you thought I was implying.
Section 44, which covers applications to reform a private purpose trust, corresponds with the existing cy-près jurisdiction relating to public purpose trusts.
I am old enough—as, indeed, are Philip Rycroft and, I think, Hugh Rawlings—to remember the transition from the pre-devolution civil service to the post-devolution civil service.