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Fourthly, the information has been updated to include the significant increases in inflation, partly reflecting inflation increasing across the years since the referral levels captured in pre-pandemic data but also reflecting how it has been affected by UK fiscal policy and Brexit.
That is why the bill includes reforms to improve pre-release planning and the throughcare support that is provided to individuals on release from prison.
In a previous session on islands during our pre-budget scrutiny, there was concern that communities and organisations had applied for the funding but missed out.
However, we are working through a process at the moment. I cannot pre-empt the board paper that is going to Food Standards Scotland on 7 December that begins to unpick for us what things we would shift resources off, if we had to do that.
I might bring in my officials to talk about the history of the 2019 act, which you will appreciate pre-dates my time in office, but, as you know, the act introduced the national ban.
Debates are always a little bit artificial—people clearly do arrive with their pre-written remarks and so on—but you remove any hope of having a proper debate, in which one person will stand up and respond to what the person before has said if you have these preordained lists.