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Given that there was no baseline data, because no such data existed pre-reform, what progress has been made on auditing savings in this financial year?
Because diagnosis is just one element of it, the Scottish Government has set up the autistic adult support fund, which provides pre-diagnostic and post-diagnostic support for autistic adults.
If the Government committed more meaningfully to a year-round process including the spring fiscal event, it would give committees much more of a role in pre-budget scrutiny and in engaging meaningfully with those challenges and questions.
One of the issues that you mentioned was transparency. The committee produced a pre-budget scrutiny report for 2025-26, and we just received the response to it on Christmas eve.
As the budget clearly sets out, a lot of pre-commitment of capital spend is in areas such as the drive to net zero, which is clearly hugely important to sustainable growth.
On the other hand, I recognise that our funding is greater than its pre-Covid levels. We can get into some of the numbers and the data during our scrutiny session.
As part of the west partnership regional improvement collaborative, there have also been the west online schools pre-recorded lessons. Young people have shown us that we can learn in a different way.