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Thank you, convener, but I believe that my question was covered in the cabinet secretary’s opening remarks.

Given that, do you anticipate any strain in achieving gender balance when it comes to securing the right expertise?

If Labour is returned at the next general election, will it make reforms, do you think? Additional consequentials would then come over, which would help us to reform our benefit.

Thanks for that. When it comes to your bill, you have already covered a number of my questions. The bill would prevent SCOSS from considering a draft regulation on EIA. Does the proposed membership of SEIAC include enough expertise on the wider social security issues to enable it to replace SCOSS’s scrutiny role entirely?

Thank you. I really appreciate your answers.

Good morning, everyone.

Mr Griffin, I respect your long-standing interest in the matter. Your bill raises a number of wider issues that need to be considered. Before I get to the theme that the committee wants me to cover, given your long-standing interest in industrial injuries, I want to ask you about something that Ian Tasker said during his evidence. He said that political decisions on eligibility have been

“part of the problem over the years, as successive Governments have just ignored industrial injuries benefit.”——[Official Report, Social Justice and Social Security Committee, 23 November 2023; c 28.]

Why do you think that UK Governments have, for decades, refused to allow women and men who are injured in the workplace to seek benefit?

Thank you. In the interests of time, I will stop there.

Thanks for that. Back to you, convener.

Thank you for that.

One of my constituents raised an issue about a complaint not being accepted because it was made in the name of a local community council. What avenue does a community council have to make a complaint if it is about a local authority?