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To be more specific, the duties legally bind the Scottish ministers to developing a Scottish child poverty strategy within the first year following the bill's enactment and a revised strategy every three years after that.
Amendment 7, which is entirely technical, follows as a consequence of the changes to definitions proposed in amendments 4 and 5 and keeps the bill's language consistent with that of the 1984 act.
The amount that is included in the autumn budget revision relates to the work that we are doing to support the Scottish Government and the various work streams that it established following the Crerar review to consider how to implement the review's recommendations.
When we reach item 9 on the agenda, it will be interesting to see how we can follow it up.You said that more projects have been started than can be afforded.
However, although blood samples are taken and may be analysed, the assessment programme—I emphasise the word "assessment"—simply sends the results back to the doctor. There is no follow-up and no treatment is recommended.
I think that a similar approach has been taken with the China strategy and that there has been wider stakeholder engagement with that. You are not following the same process, but there will be wider stakeholder engagement once the formal strategy is launched.
If the Lord Advocate issues guidance, the police and procurators fiscal must follow it, and they were following it from the evidence that was available.
As Mr Baillie said, it is essential to follow the “Code of Guidance on Funding External Bodies and Following the Public Pound” that the Accounts Commission and COSLA released a few years ago.