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At that point, you thought that those adjustments were necessary. I am trying to get a sense of the scale of that gap. If you take the £1.433 billion and the £1 billion, there is a gap of almost £2.5 billion in your budget. At that point, was that the gap that you were trying to fill?

Did you make the assumption before or after the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government’s September statement about cuts?

Could you give us the range?

Ms Hughes, were you looking to come in?

In your submission, minister, you said:

“These amounts”—

the £1.433 billion—

“are broadly in line with our internal planning assumption and is factored into spending plans.”

When did you make that assumption?

That is the figure that I have.

Are you expecting to realise the rest of the cuts in year? Are you going to persist with the rest of the cuts that were projected in September?

In January 2022, the then First Minister—two First Ministers back—said that the ScotWind moneys

“will help deliver the supply chain investments and high quality jobs that will make the climate transition a fair one.”

That money should be invested in the north-east of Scotland. Three years on, why is that money not yet being spent on such projects?

The alternative would have been to set a balanced budget.

It is the statement that you were factoring in the £1.433 billion of spending in your assumption that I think is puzzling the committee—

What does that work tell you? How long will it take?