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I welcome the constructive points that the minister has suggested in relation to writing to the committee, but I am still concerned about electric vehicle charging points and, specifically, about the 105 buildings that still have to be surveyed. I looked at the terms of reference for the cladding stakeholder group. I do not believe that its members have a responsibility to take part in Government consultations. The minister might need to take that issue away, have a conversation with them and the Fire and Rescue Service and consider whether he could commit to introducing an amending order to exempt those buildings while they are still to be surveyed.

I support the principle of what the Government is trying to achieve, but I am not sure where direct engagement has taken place on safety with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the stakeholder group on cladding on high-rise buildings. Their knowing about the consultation is one thing, but responding is another, and I do not know whether they did. You suggest that they did not respond.

Alison McGrory, do you have anything to add?

It is the wider issue of attaching electric charging points to buildings. I wondered whether consultation had taken place on their being freestanding under the changes and whether the issue has been discussed with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the stakeholder groups that are still undertaking significant work on cladding issues in Scotland.

That is helpful. Thank you.

That was helpful—thank you. Alison MacLeod, did you want to come in?

My specific issue, and where stakeholder groups would want to have been involved, concerns the proximity of electric charging points to buildings and the relaxed rules around installing them. From what I am hearing, I am not sure whether that work is taking place.

I accept that. Some of the work that the stakeholder group on cladding has been doing is specifically around the proximity of electric charging points to buildings. I am concerned about that and am not sure that it has been captured or specifically been considered.

Good morning and thank you for joining us today.

Your comments about where you think the public are in all of this have been refreshing and honest, but I want to ask a few questions about how this approach has changed organisations and bodies. You touched on that in response to my colleague Marie McNair when you talked about working with third sector and outside organisations. How has resource and budget allocation changed? For most of the groups to whom we have spoken, the issue comes down to who pays for delivery. Do you have examples of what that has looked like and how CPPs have helped change that resource allocation?

That was helpful. I know that capturing resource in kind is sometimes quite difficult to quantify with a financial figure.