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We do that by making compelling content, delivering it where the audience is and ensuring that it is prominent. I know that the Media Act 2024 has gone through the United Kingdom Parliament, although what it will mean for the prominence of public service content is still unclear to me.
We also heard from the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland that, three months after the statutory deadline of 6 May 2024, only 72 per cent of listed authorities had published plans in English, with only 62 per cent having published them in BSL.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024 specifically makes it clear that there should be wider tests.
The Auditor General’s briefing paper says: “In November 2024, the ASL Project Board considered a high-level approach to improving data recording and reporting by 2028”.
For example, RCGP Scotland is proud of its certificate in problem drug use, the course on which we run over two half days. In November 2024, we took in close to 80 people—the course was fully subscribed.
The First Minister said that “the UK Government should have increased income tax”—Official Report, 14 November 2024; c 13. to the level that we have in Scotland.
What we see coming to fruition at the moment is something that we warned the committee about in evidence in May 2024, when we said that there would be an impact if funding was further reduced and was inadequate.