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Thank you very much. I will bring in Thanos Karatzias and then ask a couple of supplementary questions.

Yes, please.

I will bring in Pauline McNeill in a moment, but I wonder whether I can come back to John Watt. In the Parole Board submission, you question the categorisation of the board as a “criminal justice agency”. Why is that? How should trauma-informed practice be applied to the Parole Board?

Can you make sure that this is relevant to the provisions of the bill?

Is there anything that you want to add, Chief Superintendent Frew?

Thank you. We move on to questions from Fulton MacGregor.

John Swinney, do you want to come in very quickly?

A number of members are still looking to come in, and we have about 15 minutes left, so I request succinct questions and answers. We go to Sharon Dowey, followed by Katy Clark.

Thank you for that response. Just to clarify, I should have said that the organisations that highlighted that are Scottish Women’s Aid, Rape Crisis Scotland and Victim Support Scotland. They probably did so when they were giving evidence to the committee.

There is one final question—the shortest question today—from Russell Findlay.

It is no surprise that John Swinney would like to come back in.