This year, our health boards are getting an average uplift of 3.8 per cent.

5. To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to review the NRAC funding formula for NHS boards. (S5O-02883)

Is the member concerned that the expansion of CPOs will come at a time when one in three CPOs is never completed?

I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak for the Scottish Conservatives on the Management of Offenders (Scotland) Bill.

Does Jenny Gilruth agree with Scottish Women’s Aid that breach of electronic monitoring conditions must automatically be an offence?

In terms of what we do next, does the member agree with us that it should always be an offence to cut a tag off?

The cabinet secretary mentioned Scottish Women’s Aid. Does he share its view that cutting off a tag should be an offence?

Will the member take an intervention on that point?

I understand the cabinet secretary’s point, which is reasonable.

As with a number of the scandals that have rocked Scottish policing in recent years, the alleged practices look to be the result of a fai