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That is fine. Could you tell me which recommendations have been completed?

I can come back to that.

I was going to ask you about an action plan for the rest of the recommendations. You have already mentioned that, but do the Scottish Prison Service and the NHS have an action plan that gives a timescale for when they think that each of those recommendations will be implemented? Is there someone who is accountable for making sure that that is actioned?

Is somebody accountable for those areas in the SPS and the NHS? Is there somebody to whom you could write to ask how they are progressing with, say, recommendation 3.2?

To go back to what you said, nobody has spoken to you about extending your term, and you do not know whether anybody else is coming in. What do you think needs to happen to increase the pace of implementation?

Thank you. My husband is a retired police officer but, other than that, I have nothing to declare.

The Auditor General has previously reported that prisoner numbers are exceeding the operating capacity of Scotland’s prisons. To what extent are the court backlog and the number of people on remand adding to the existing pressures in the prison system?

Has there been any kind of analysis on the reason for all those solemn cases coming through?

The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service’s modelling for 2021 initially stated that its target for clearing the backlog was to reach 390 outstanding High Court trials and 500 outstanding sheriff court solemn trials in order to return to normal. The report that Audit Scotland published earlier this year notes that that has now shifted to 567 High Court trials and 1,892 sheriff court solemn trials. That is quite a moving of the goalposts. Why has the backlog target changed so much?

How much more funding would be required in order for the courts service to return to the backlog targets that it originally set in 2021?