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Anyone can find themselves a victim of domestic or financial abuse. Creeping behaviour and facades of charm mean that it can be difficult to recognise the early signs, but it can ultimately lead to women and children being trapped with no financial means to leave.
We need to develop the infrastructure that supports those behaviours and those habits. It is not just a case of telling people or businesses what they could be doing.
We are currently putting through two huge pieces of legislation—the Criminal Justice Modernisation and Abusive Domestic Behaviour Reviews (Scotland) Bill and the Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill—and I would say that we are acting as a team.
I have asked—and colleagues are keen to ascertain—what the sweet spot is in terms of behavioural change. In other words, where does tax go up and revenue go down?
It is easy for the psychologist to say that this is clustering because it is about a behavioural model, but until you have a contralateral argument to say that it might be biological, you cannot draw that conclusion.
We are working on our culture, on creating the psychological safety for people to challenge poor behaviour when we see it in action and on supporting colleagues with education and training to give them confidence to challenge such behaviour.
In essence, consumers are essential to the net zero transition, because so much of it now is about consumer behaviour—the way in which people interact with their energy systems, their homes, transport and food, and the choices that they make.
There now seems to be no way to hold them on remand as a result of that behaviour. That is unfortunate. What Philip Lamont said is that, even at summary level, where non-appearance is part of the case against a person, that can be taken into account—unless I am getting that wrong.