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The success rate in prevention of reoffending seems to be good.

If multiple agencies were inputting information, would there be implications for how long it would take to get a decision made?

Just to clarify, are you suggesting that the first step in the application would be to contact a third sector organisation that has been working with the person?

Tracey, may I have your views?

Is there a risk that some people might fall through the net if they are not connected to a third sector organisation and are not getting support?

Very briefly—

Good morning. From your submissions, you seem to be broadly supportive of the bill, although you highlight resources as an issue.

I want to ask a wee bit more about the suggestion that third sector organisations, when working with individuals in a case, should be able to provide input to help to inform decisions. How would that work in practice? Are there concerns in general about how that might delay the process? What are the timings likely to be in the whole court system, if several organisations are inputting and may be working to different timescales? Has the system suffered because of a lack of information from third sector organisations until now? I think that you believe that the bill should provide the opportunity for third sector organisations to do that, so I ask you to talk a wee bit about that.

I will go to Charlie Martin first.

Thank you, convener. This is for Gillian. It is a brief question about the pilot in South Lanarkshire that she mentioned.

Will you elaborate on the similarities between what you are doing and what the bill proposes to do? How successful has the pilot been? Has it finished? If not, how long has it got to run? What have the cost implications been for you so far? I think that you said that you could not possibly roll it out permanently. It would be good to get an idea of the level of that.

That is really helpful.

Going back to the issue of women in custody, which is an area on which I am particularly focused, I have what I know is a very broad question for Suzanne, Sharon and Keith. Nevertheless, I am interested in hearing their responses to it.

Do you think that the bill will bring about the necessary changes? As has been said, most women who are on remand or in custody should not be anywhere near prison, and it would be a fantastic outcome if the bill were to facilitate keeping them out of it. Do you think that there is a possibility, albeit with the necessary resources and interagency management, of the bill helping to keep women out of custody or remand?

Suzanne, could you answer that first, please?