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Although the number of complaints about best start grants is low compared with the number of applications, I note that the research that is referred to in the motion shows that the majority of complaints that have been made about best start grants were upheld.
Of those attendees, 81 per cent took part in the feedback exercise, and the response on best practice, training, support and so on was overwhelmingly positive.
Just to be clear, is the First Minister saying categorically that that did not happen—that the name of a complainant was not passed on to the former chief of staff to Alex Salmond before the meeting on 2 April? To the very best of my knowledge, I do not think that that happened.
I set out at First Minister’s question time last week, I think—or possibly the week before—the work that the Scottish Government is doing to determine how best we target funding to help those who are most in need of help in that situation.