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That is very helpful. Thank you.

On that basis, are the numbers of 16 to 18-year-olds coming through those services increasing, decreasing or standing still? How do you plan for what will be required in the future? Has that been thought about?

I can see that Stephen Bermingham wants to come in.

That is extremely useful. As you know, the updated financial information estimates the cost of providing aftercare support for children over the age of 16 when they leave secure care at around £200,000 a year. It is being suggested, as you have addressed, that that could be absorbed into existing aftercare services. Has how much would be required going forward been thought about if that money cannot be absorbed into existing budgets? It is a considerable sum of money considering the number of young people we are talking about. Are there on-going talks to address that issue?

On what happens in New Zealand, where Scotland has links and all sorts of stuff, do we need to learn more about what is going on over there and are correspondence and conversations, at least, needed between Scotland and New Zealand to develop that? Perhaps we could move things on better by working together.

Thank you for your responses so far. Section 8 talks about regulatory categories and sets out that a regulator of legal services providers is subject to different requirements according to whether it has been assigned as a category 1 or category 2 regulator. It says that the Law Society of Scotland is assigned as a category 1 regulator and that the Faculty of Advocates and the Association of Commercial Attorneys are assigned as category 2 regulators.

As you have already noted, section 8(5) gives a power to Scottish ministers that would enable them to reassign legal regulators between category 1 and category 2, which would change the requirements that such legal services regulators are subject to. The Scottish Government has stated that that regulation-making power is required so that ministers can respond to any fundamental changes that regulators undergo. Can you imagine what those fundamental changes would be?

Morag, would you like to add anything?

Those are very clear standpoints. Thank you very much indeed.

On that basis, do you agree that such regulations should have to meet additional requirements and that, therefore, they would have to be laid in draft before the Scottish Parliament before they could be made?

Thank you.