I would say yes.
Like everyone else, I think, we very quickly moved to virtual proceedings. In what were the very early days, it was simply party leaders questioning the first minister of Scotland. We then built on that small start by allowing other members to participate. Then, as soon as the rules allowed, we brought people back physically, albeit socially distanced. That limited the numbers in the chambers.
One of the things that Parliament was very keen to do was to ensure that every member was able to vote. Prepandemic voting was done using consoles in the chamber. That meant physical participation. We moved as quickly as we possibly could—as did colleagues in Wales—to develop an app that allowed all members, not just those who could be physically present in the chamber, to vote via this app. That was done very much from the point of view of supporting our democracy. There was a very strong feeling that it was just not acceptable for elected members not to be able to exercise the vote that they were sent to the Parliament to deliver.
Those are the kinds of principles that we bore in mind from very early on in the pandemic. I think by and large we were able to make sure that our democracy was as healthy and strong as it could possibly be during the pandemic.