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When changes are made at a UK Government level, they absolutely have an impact here, despite our best aspirations for what we might want payments to look like.
For constituency members, it is relatively straightforward—we can almost mirror the system in Westminster and improve on it, as I said last week. We could ultimately have the best recall system in the United Kingdom at the end of this.
Looking at low-income benefits, particularly best start foods, we see that it was Social Security Scotland that took forward the changes to remove income thresholds for that.
We do, however, encourage the committee to consider whether the bill, as proposed, is the best or only model available to deliver on that policy intent.
I think that there is a solid case for that information to be published proactively to best inform applicants as to whether they are using one of their five bullets—the five chances that they have—properly.
If, in the short term, we can use those offers as best we can and, running parallel with that, identify some longer-term solutions, that is our way forward as a council.