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I want to press further on that, if I may, convener. I appreciate everything that you have just said, Chris. Off the top of your head, is there anything that needs to be included in the co-design process to account for that and which will make you feel more secure and reassured about being listened to?

We will now take questions from Pam Duncan-Glancy, to be followed by Jeremy Balfour.

L’Arche has recommended that personal assistants be regulated. Why is that needed and what impact could it have?

As you come from the Highlands, is there anything that you think that the national care service would need to consider in working with third sector providers in different geographical areas?

Thank you. You have answered the next question that I was going to ask.

Good morning, minister. In the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, you focused on the order in which the process is being done, with the bill being enabling legislation and the detail being developed through a process of co-design and subject to sign-off from the Parliament through secondary legislation. Does introducing enabling legislation in that way and then co-designing the systems provide more opportunity for organisations and people with lived experience to feed in?

That is reassuring. Speaking of early intervention, are there on-going discussions at this early stage about how the NCS will react to and be compatible with the prevention duties?

Beth, you have been quite quiet so far. I would like to pick up on what Crisis has already said about not including homelessness in the functions that can be transferred to the national care service. In your opinion, what will the impact of that be?

Thank you. That was helpful.

I am interested in your reference to the SSSC. There has been some concern that having PAs register in that way would push them towards a more clinical qualification and career trajectory. Do you share those concerns? Is there anything that, conversely, you would not want to see in the regulation of PAs?

Presumably, the alternative is to bring detail forward, then ask people to respond to it. Would that allow the same consultation and co-design?