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I go back to Justina Murray. Are the kits available to most third sector organisations?

Good afternoon to the minister and the rest of the panel.

Minister, you touched on the drug-checking pilot projects earlier in the meeting and, indeed, in your opening statement. However, the previous panel told us in their evidence how resource intensive those pilots have been. Can you provide an update on the expected timescales and processes for setting up a drug-checking facility in each of the areas that have been targeted? What impact do you see those facilities having?

I have a quick question about the applications that have been put through to the Home Office. When do you envisage that you will get notification that those have been approved?

Thank you. Perhaps I can bring Justina Murray and Kirsten Horsburgh in on this question.

How have you found the practicalities of it, such as enticing people to use the service?

Yes.

Thank you, deputy convener.

We move to theme 3, which is on quicker processes.

I invite Paul O’Kane to put his questions.

Before I go on to the final theme, which is face-to-face appeal hearings, I will touch on something that Lesley Black mentioned about the more than 20 staff that you brought in from the reserved area. Have they given you any feedback on the lessons that have been learned from the process that they dealt with in the past?