It is imperative that victims and witnesses are, first and foremost, treated as people and not as pieces of evidence. That end-to-end journey time is being more closely monitored, with the publication of data for full transparency, and the investment in the court recovery programme is paying dividends.

In due course, we will respond to the independent review of the victim notification scheme. The core of that is how and when we communicate with victims. An important strand of work on that has been undertaken by the victims task force, which the Lord Advocate and I chair.