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The census in England proceeded on the planned timetable, but the census in Scotland was delayed. Have you been able to make any preliminary judgment on whether the decision to delay meant that we improved the data capture rate in Scotland or whether, for some reason, that decision impeded management of the census?

I am looking for clarification on a final point. The report states that the international steering group

“concluded that extending the”

census coverage survey

“would have a negative impact on subsequent stages of the census programme”.

Dharshi Santhakumaran, do you know what those negative impacts were likely to have been?

I note that NRS is not formally represented on that international steering group. Is there any particular reason why that is the case?

Good morning. I have a few questions about the Scottish digital academy. I want to explore the impact of the academy and the courses that you have put in place. The First Minister’s digital fellowship and digital champions programmes have been launched and undertaken. What impact are they having on the ground?

That pre-empts my next question. How do you determine which courses to offer in-house and which ones to bring in external suppliers for? What drives the choice of course subject matter?

On driving take-up, will you give us an indication of the methodology—you have identified one part of it—and the marketing that you are engaged in to make sure that you get buy-in and take-up from the broader range of Government organisations in Scotland?

I have a brief question. The last time that you were before the committee, you referred to the cost of the infrastructure and the architecture for the Covid passport scheme. There was a fee per person who registered that was paid to a third-party agency or something for the verification. Do you know whether the total published costs included that nominal subscription fee per registrant?

Have you done any benchmarking to assess the level of investment that you are putting in relative to Governments such as the Singapore Government, which have adopted a digital-delivery-first principle? Are we lagging behind those Governments that are taking an ambitious approach in this area?

What has the total cost of the academy been to date?

That was going to be my next question. Identifying it as a digital academy puts it into a silo. Is there a broader suite of training and skills provision in the Scottish Government or the Scottish public sector with which you could come together to create a more holistic approach?