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I have a general question for the panel on the benefit of pre-recording evidence. What is the impact on vulnerable witnesses of pre-recording evidence, and on the quality of evidence?
Not only will children be kept out of poverty, but there will be support for disabled people and their carers and essential help for pensioners and others via winter heating payments.As I set out in my letter to the committee last month, there have been a number of significant developments since the committee’s pre-budget scrutiny was carried out.
I am sure that, among your deliberations, you have had a close look at what one of our country’s most pre-eminent legal minds, Lord Hope, has had to say on that subject and others.
Members indicated agreement.Pre-budget Scrutiny 2025-26 Pre-budget Scrutiny 2025-26 Agenda item 3 is our final evidence-taking session as part of our annual pre-budget scrutiny.
As colleagues have mentioned, many services have not returned to pre-pandemic levels, and that is disproportionately impacting on people with disabilities and, by extension, it is often impacting on their carers.
We would await the outcome of consultations to see what the evidence tells us is the appropriate way. We would not want to pre-empt that process. I appreciate that it is early days.
Again, that is about gathering and publishing more information so that we can support, but also scrutinise, what is happening on the ground. You have pre-empted my second question, which is about auditing what has happened previously.
Again, that is about gathering and publishing more information so that we can support, but also scrutinise, what is happening on the ground. You have pre-empted my second question, which is about auditing what has happened previously.