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Thank you for that.

I will move on to questions from other members and then come back to Mr Findlay if we have time.

Mr Shanks might want to come in.

Thanks very much. We will come back to a lot of the points that you have raised.

Thank you very much. That is a helpful update. I am sure that we will come back to that.

We are conscious of the time, so I am going to bring in Russell Findlay in a moment to wind up the session, but I would like to come back to the discussion that we had about the push-and-pull factors that end in a suicide by a police officer or a member of staff. Based on our discussions today, it seems to be difficult to pin down what those factors have been.

Fiona McQueen, how difficult is it for the SPA to scrutinise the way in which Police Scotland responds to such incidents, given that the factors that lead to such a tragic event happening are unclear, making it more difficult to put preventative measures in place. How do we scrutinise the response that Police Scotland puts in place?

We almost did it.

Our final item of business is consideration of correspondence on the issue of policing and mental health. I refer members to paper 4.

I thank the cabinet secretary for her helpful update and certainly welcome the creation of a cross-ministerial working group on this important subject. I hope that the committee’s interest in the issue, and the priority that we have given to it, is beginning to have an impact. We are beginning to see some progress on addressing the matters that we have highlighted.

Do members want to raise any points about the cabinet secretary’s letter or ask any further questions?

Another couple of members want to come in.

Absolutely. As the minister said, one of the important areas of work is the preventative work that is being done. I suppose that prevention and intervention are absolutely key.