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Briefly, can we have your thoughts, David?

We will move on to a question from Pam Duncan-Glancy on theme 2.

That brings us to the end of our questions. I want to say my own thanks to you and your officials for coming. You have given the committee a lot to think about. The key issues are the collegiate working between the two Governments, the twin tracks of the independent review and the changes that might be made to the UK Government’s disability benefits. Thank you very much. I hope that we will have further conversations in future.

I suspend the meeting briefly to give members a moment for a comfort break. We will start again in about 10 minutes at the most. We are a wee bit ahead of schedule.

That concludes the public part of the meeting. At next week’s meeting, we will consider the medium-term financial strategy and the resource spending review framework, as well as considering affirmative subordinate legislation.

Absolutely.

Thank you very much for your opening statement. I will move straight to questions from members. There is a lot of interest in putting questions to the minister, so I urge my colleagues, if a question has been answered, to reframe their questions a little to allow enough time for discussion.

We will look at five broad themes. The first is UK disability benefit reform. We will then move on to questions on passported benefits, then on to case transfer, then on to Scottish child payment data sharing and, finally, we will have questions on the fiscal framework review. I will start off with my colleague, Miles Briggs, who is in the room, then we will move on to Pam Duncan-Glancy, who is also in the room

I will hand over now to Jeremy Balfour for his questions. Marie McNair has had her question on the scheme answered. We will then go back to Pam Duncan-Glancy after that.

Emma Roddick has questions on this theme, too. Broadcasting are hopeful that we have a better connection, so let us try again.

Yes. I am content for us to write to seek clarity on those points. Do members agree that we should do that?

Members indicated agreement.