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Like colleagues, we commend the team at the Scottish Government for the inclusive way in which they went about the pre-consultation work. The lived experience advisory panel and the stakeholder panels were great to be involved in and very productive.
Members indicated agreement.Pre-budget Scrutiny 2025-26 Pre-budget Scrutiny 2025-26 Our next item is to take evidence as part of our pre-budget scrutiny for 2025-26.
I will give that detailed consideration very soon, and I am happy to update the committee in writing about the outcome. I do not want to pre-empt what the outcome will be, but I can provide an update on the thinking that has taken place to date.
I thank you for the replies from the Scottish Government, but the ironic thing is that, in our pre-budget letter last year, we also asked about disaggregation of data.
The Government has engaged a specialist data analysis firm that is working through that, using a pre-existing framework. There is a lot of data, as you can imagine.
I am sure that you have questions on a number of other areas, and I do not want to pre-empt all of those. I will therefore pause there, although Nicola Dickie may wish to pick up on some other areas.