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Through experience from not too far in the past, I know that there are still delays in obtaining full decisions from the Scottish Legal Aid Board, particularly when the applicant may not qualify for full legal aid and may have a contribution.
Pockets of money come forward for short-term initiatives for a year or two years. They may or may not have value at the time—we can argue about that on another day—but the approach hampers our ability to do longer-term planning, because we are continually just trying to tread water.
Thank you very much for giving evidence this morning—it is much appreciated. We may or may not see you back here at some point in the not-too-distant future.
Currently, we support 12 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, who have various immigration statuses. They may have temporary refugee status, or their claim may have been rejected.
In particular, section 19(2) says: “An enforcement officer may take to a place entered by virtue of this section any other person, or any equipment, as may be reasonably required for the purposes of assisting the officer.”
For the life of me, therefore, I cannot understand how that can possibly be adduced as an argument to justify the non-production of an energy policy.Be all that as it may, we have had five years of excuses—whatever the excuses may be—and we have no energy strategy.