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We should also have a wee word with the secretariat for the CPG on human trafficking because it should not have agreed a date for its AGM but then held a joint meeting with another group on that date, letting the AGM fall.
As we discussed during health question time before the recess, there is a relationship between the rise in social unavailability and the shortening of waiting times.
When was it filled? I do not know the exact date. It was in August 2024. :The report states:“To help with the board’s leadership capacity, the Chief Executive worked with the Scottish Government to secure external support (Viridian Associates) from August 2024”.Is that company still working with you?
Earlier this year, I undertook an exercise in which I tried to follow the money from all the policies that have been in the two delivery plans on child poverty to date. However, I was not able to follow that money properly using data that is in the public domain.
If we had delayed publication until the end of June, we would have been sitting on forecasts that would have been going out of date, or, at the least, a significant period of time would have passed.
If the commission continues to work in the spirit in which it has worked with us to date, I think that the role in question could probably be performed in-house.
Wrapped around that question, what formal processes have NatureScot or the Scottish Government conducted to date? As far as I am aware, not an awful lot has been done.