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Thank you for that, Emma and Carolyn. I will now bring Marie McNair in; she joins us remotely. She will be followed by Stephanie Callaghan, who is in the room.

Foysol Choudhury joins us remotely.

That brings us to the end of our questions. I hope that you and your organisations will be able to assist the committee again when we look at outputs from the strategic funding review of national and local services that is to be undertaken over the year and which will look at where root-and-branch reform is needed. The funding of front-line services and all the other issues that have been raised this morning are very important.

Thank you so much for your contributions this morning. Again, please follow up in writing on anything that you think that we need to know, and, specifically, on Miles Briggs’s point about interpreters.

That concludes the public part of the meeting. At next week’s meeting we will hear from the UK Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work, Chloe Smith MP.

Thank you. Pam Duncan-Glancy has another question, and we have other questions to come—still on theme 1—from Jeremy Balfour, Foysol Choudhury and Emma Roddick. It is difficult, because we all want to hear what you have to say and you all want to get everything out, but it would be helpful if you could keep your answers succinct.

Thank you for your answers so far. We have got through only a couple of questions and we are nearly 35 minutes into the session. I ask people to keep in mind that we have only 25 minutes left. After Foysol Choudhury, who joins us remotely, has asked his question, I will bring in Emma Roddick.

I will bring in Marsha Scott, and then I will bring in Davy Thompson to give us his perspective from working with BME men.

We have heard loud and clear the message about mainstreaming.

I call Marie McNair, who joins us remotely, to ask questions on theme 2, which we have already touched on quite a bit. I will then bring in my colleague, Stephanie Callaghan, who is in the committee room, and Jeremy Balfour.

I call Stephanie Callaghan, who has a couple of questions on prevention.

That would be fantastic. If anybody from the panel wants to write on any of the issues raised this morning, that would be helpful.

Pam Duncan-Glancy, do you want to come in with questions on this theme?