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Mr Austin, what commitments have you received from the UK Government to date? There have been verbal commitments in policy aspirations, which are similar to those made by the Scottish Government.
We work with Social Security Scotland to ensure that we get as much up-to-date information as possible about expenditure, so that our forecasts can be revised.
The education sector is fully aware of the intended commencement date of August 2020, and local authorities are taking steps to plan, encourage and select teachers to undertake the into headship programme.
I have not been involved in working directly on the company stuff—that has not been my role to date. I was asked to come to the session because of the broader issue.
How do you ensure that there is no conflict of interests, given their involvement to date with Scottish Government IT projects and potential future involvement?