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With regard to commissioning, we must ensure through pre-market engagement with suppliers that they have a clear understanding of the need and demand that is to be met.
Also, to Leon’s point, this is the first time that we have not had any dialogue at all with a finance secretary pre-budget. There was no visibility at all.
Will you explain the status of the recovery to pre-pandemic audit reporting timelines and advise when you expect to return to pre-pandemic service levels?
The response says that the aim is to return to the point where the number of cases across courts is approximately 20,000, which I presume is deemed an acceptable pre-Covid level of backlog. I want to query that.
Members indicated agreement.Pre-budget Scrutiny 2023-24 Pre-budget Scrutiny 2023-24 Agenda item 2 is evidence taking as part of the committee’s pre-budget scrutiny for the 2023-24 budget.
I think that, this time last year, the figure was 82 per cent, and I am reliably informed that, pre-pandemic, the figure was around 100 per cent or at least in the high 90s.
The difficulty with that, and what made people frustrated, was that it had to be very pre-planned and organised. There was a call list, you could not intervene and there was very little debate within the debates.