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Thank you.

Do the witnesses consider that there are accommodation providers that will be covered by the bill that should not be covered?

As you said, the Scottish Government has expanded eligibility for some benefits such as adult disability payment and Scottish carers assistance without the requisite funding from the UK Government. Does funding that additional expenditure put continued pressure on the Scottish Government? You have touched on the subject—can you expand on that a wee bit?

Good morning, panel. I will direct my questions to Bill Scott.

What are your views on how the social security budget is funded? There is obviously an increased take-up of the benefits that have transferred over to the Scottish Government. How welcome is that? Do you feel that there will be pressure on the Scottish Government in the future?

No. In the interests of time, I will pass back to you.

Good morning, Mr Neil. It is great to see you—thank you for your time. You will accept that a number of factors have impacted on the project over the past few years, and, obviously, there are the current economic challenges. There are challenges for infrastructure projects across various countries, given inflation and so on. The Scottish Government has no ability to borrow to raise capital. If you were still in the Government, how would you seek to proceed in these circumstances? I would appreciate your wisdom.

Thanks for that. Finally, we do not really have an understanding of the detail at the moment, but do you have a rough figure of how much action to remediate the issue would cost?

My questions have been covered, convener.

I represent the Clydebank and Milngavie constituency.

I put this question initially to Chris Goodier. Do we have any understanding of how extensively RAAC was used in house building, particularly in social house building from, say, the late 1950s into the 1970s? Do you have any data on that?

Good morning to you, cabinet secretary, and to your officials.

When you were last before the committee, we both agreed that, despite its antiquity, the industrial injuries disablement benefit had been left unchanged by successive Westminster Governments. I think that we both also agree that the same can be said of the carers allowance, although there have been two main changes since it was created, in 1976, of which the most significant was allowing married women to make a claim. We face a big challenge that we need to get right if we are to provide a more progressive level of support for carers. Does the Scottish Government have the balance right between safe and secure transfer and the speed of change that is necessary to deliver a system that fully supports unpaid carers?

This week, I will again cover the issue of overpayments. Some of my colleagues might want to come in once I have concluded. Are the proposed changes sufficient to reduce the number of overpayments? What more can be done after safe and secure transfer?