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Typically, that will involve a forensic accountant looking under the covers at the historical data and saying, “Wait a minute—something needs to be done here.”
To summarise some of the points that I have already made, Government needs to take account of young people’s views, given that we have incorporated the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into law.
For those watching proceedings who might view this as a slightly technical question or a question about accounting, I ask that we just imagine for a second a really small organisation—a particularly small organisation—with not a lot of people to do the paperwork, the finance and the budgeting.
In theory, its role is supposed to be to hold the chief constable to account. My experience is that it has not done that, or that its oversight has been inadequate.
When cases are raised, we make an assessment of the likelihood of success or otherwise, as we have done for many years. We often make provision in our accounts, and, because those cases can drag on for several years, that money will accrue.
If the member wishes to see more money going into childcare, the simple fact is that it will have to come from somewhere else, and that will have to be taken into account. The consequentials are not sitting unused.
We have made sure that the outward communication to stakeholders takes account of the accommodation that we have reached as to how we are going to work.
Looking at the budget, which is coming increasingly under strain, how do we take all those factors into account in the management of an NHS that will change?
However, I am confident at this stage that the bill takes account of not just the responses that we heard in the previous session of Parliament but the long-held views of organisations that were involved in helping to draft it.