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That is great. Thank you very much for that.

I believe that you were going to ask question 7 in our paper, Jeremy.

I believe that Marie McNair wants to come in, and then I will invite Jeremy Balfour.

As no one else wants to come in, that concludes our evidence session and our public business for today. Several committee members are going to visit Social Security Scotland in Dundee on Monday, so I feel that we are now armed with a lot more information in order to ask pertinent questions. I thank the witnesses very much for your attendance today. We will now move into private session to consider the remaining items on the agenda.

Our next item of business is an evidence session on the Scottish Government’s budget for 2024-25 with the Scottish Fiscal Commission. This is an opportunity to consider the commission’s forecast spending on devolved social security benefits and how that is reflected in the social security budget for 2024-25. I welcome to the meeting Professor Graeme Roy, chair of the commission; Professor David Ulph, commissioner; and Michael Davidson, head of social security and devolved taxes. Thank you for accepting the committee’s invitation.

Before we move to questions, I invite Graeme Roy to make some opening remarks.

A very good morning to everyone and welcome to the first meeting in 2024 of the Social Justice and Social Security Committee. We have received apologies from Katy Clark.

Our first item of business is a decision to take agenda item 3 in private. Do we agree to do that?

Members indicated agreement.

I invite Jeremy Balfour, who is joining us online, to ask a question.

I invite Bob Doris to do so.

That is really helpful.

I invite Jeremy Balfour to come in.