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Our professional users such as lenders and solicitors are authenticated users and have accounts with us, so we verify them. They have access to our online services, and they can carry out registrations and make amendments and that sort of thing.
In the interests of time, I will be happy to come back with a bit more detail on the work that we are doing on temporary accommodation. Paul McLennan, who joins us online, will ask the final questions in the session.
Since visas started to come through, we have been chasing our tail a bit and things are really picking up. Our online form is working really well to help us in triaging the cases so that we are working on who is already here and the safeguarding element.
Crucially, the science has recently allowed us also to do genetic testing, so we can now tell which variant is in which place. That is just coming online. We can think of waste water testing as an early warning score for Covid outbreaks in an area.
They have been facing challenges for many years—what is happening now is not a new phenomenon. The upsurge in online trading has changed much of the approach to town centres.
I am pleased to welcome once again to the committee room the Auditor General for Scotland, Stephen Boyle, who is joined online by Mark Taylor, audit director, Audit Scotland.
Everyone aged over 18 can now book their booster through the online portal; our aim is that everyone who is eligible will be able to book an appointment by 31 December.