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We have come to the end of that group of amendments. Given the time, it would be appropriate to close the meeting and complete stage 2 of the bill next week.

I welcome Bob Doris back to the committee and invite him to speak to amendment 4 and other amendments in the group.

I remind members to speak through the chair.

No problem. Thank you very much, minister.

I call Annie Wells to move amendment 8A and to speak to all the amendments in the group.

I invite Graham Simpson to speak to amendment 1 and the other amendments in the group.

I am happy for you to do so, because it is on the public record, and I am happy for it to go into the record.

Therefore, it would be helpful for the committee to contact the Scottish Government to ask for clarification in respect of the statement that all SOPOs and RoSHOs will finish on 31 March 2028 and to ask when they will actually finish.

DCI Chisholm, would you like to add anything else?

I assume that Police Scotland, through the chief constable, takes full responsibility for the notification enforcement and requirements, and that the overseas court would have nothing to do with that.

The other bodies that are involved in MAPPA, especially the health bodies, have other obligations that relate to the care of the individual—indeed, they have very strong obligations to undertake certain actions. That is completely separate from the SONR stuff. We are simply talking about people’s best endeavours with regard to notification so that everyone is aware of an individual’s risk profile because, at the end of the day, MAPPA is about protecting the public from the specific risks that someone might present. It is not a sentence; it is about how an individual can remain in the community, while being monitored appropriately to a level that provides reassurance to the public that, as far as possible, they are safe. Is that right?