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Can I—[Interruption.] Marsha Scott can add a brief comment.

I bring in Rona Mackay, to be followed by Fulton MacGregor. I ask for succinct questions and responses.

Thank you for that. You are right that we have a lot to cover, so I will open questions up to other members. Sharon Dowey would like to come in, followed by Pauline McNeill and Russell Findlay.

It is the back of half 12, so we will move on to part 3, which covers special measures in civil cases. I interrupted Pauline McNeill in her questioning earlier. Would you like to come back in, Pauline?

I will bring in Pauline McNeill and Sharon Dowey, and then we will have to move on.

We will quickly move on to questions from Sharon Dowey. I am sorry to rush you, Sharon.

Thank you for that. We will move swiftly on to questions on part 2, on the embedding of trauma-informed practice. I ask members to direct questions to one witness, or two at the most.

I bring the session to a close. I thank our panel for their contributions this morning. That completes this agenda item, and I suspend the meeting very briefly, to allow our witnesses to leave.

That concludes our business in public.

The committee’s next meeting will be on 25 October, when we will continue with evidence taking on the Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill. We will hear from organisations representing the legal profession and a former Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales. The session will again focus on parts 1 to 3 of the bill, and we will come back to the views of the legal profession and others on parts 4 to 6 later in the year.

In the spirit of managing our session, Pauline, I ask you to come back in later with questions about special measures, so that we can focus on the victims and witnesses commissioner just now.