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It made absolute sense to us to have all of them placed within our remit, and that has just happened. You may have noticed that the review also said that SCoSS should not be subject to external audit.
There will have to be a cross-party discussion on that, and legislation would have to be introduced, if we ever wanted to do it, in the next session of Parliament. That legislation may take two or three years to happen.
Obviously, if someone is drafting something in the UK Government, they think purely from their perspective about how they are going to push things forward, and they may perceive that there is no kick-on to us in Scotland.
Social Security Scotland has been quite clear that there will be bedding-in issues around the delivery of new benefits and that that will need to balance out over time once benefits come on stream and their operation becomes more business as usual. There may be such issues, but we did not look at those issues in detail as part of the audit.
Is that traffic that would previously have gone on the Cairnryan route that is now going on the Dublin to Holyhead route? That is correct. May I ask where that information came from?
I look forward to hearing the committee’s views and answering any questions that members may have on the charter. Subject to that, I hope that the committee will be content with the revised charter and that it will recommend that the Parliament should approve it.
It also depends on whether the debtor wishes to go down the bankruptcy route. For whatever reason, they may not wish to do so. They may choose the other route, which might be more expensive.