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I will follow up on what Kate Wallace said. You found that your arguments with the Government did not gain much traction. Can you give us an indication of what the arguments are and why they are not gaining traction?

I want to ask about secure accommodation and the arrangements for those who are there on welfare grounds and those who are there on offence grounds. What needs to be done to bring confidence that those arrangements are safe and secure, particularly for those who are in secure accommodation on welfare grounds?

Are your concerns so significant that you would not be in favour of that transfer? Do you think that separate provision needs to be made, or do you think that it can be managed?

Marsha Scott, do you want to come in? I noticed that you were nodding.

I would like to follow up with some rather more detailed questions on the minutiae. First, are the costings for solicitors for children who have been arrested and taken into police custody reasonably accurate? Does anybody want to comment on that?

The updated costings in the bill now place the cost of funding secure accommodation places for children on remand on central Government rather than on local authorities. What assessment has been done of that? Are the costings accurate enough?

Right—that is fine. [Laughter.]

Are the costings for the secure accommodation aspect reasonably well worked out? Are there any comments on that?

Cabinet secretary, you might not have had the chance to read the front page of the Daily Record this morning, but there is a report that £15 million of Redress Scotland funding has been reallocated to address the teachers’ pay deal. Victims of historical child abuse will want an assurance that they are not going to lose out on compensation. Can you provide the committee with an update on that?

When Humza Yousaf was a candidate to be First Minister, earlier this year, he told an SNP leadership hustings event about the private, voluntary and independent early learning and childcare sector. He said:

“I made it very clear, having engaged with the PVI sector, that we have to have an equitable funding formula.”

He went on to say that

“we have to nail down that fair funding formula, because they tell me that, if we don’t, a number of those in the sector will shut down, and we can’t have that.”

What progress has been made on that fair funding formula?

You see the numbers. If you want me to be in government, I will be.

The issue here is that the college sector is not being treated particularly well on several different levels. You must accept that those are not good conditions for resolving an industrial dispute.