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In your answers to Emma Harper and just now, you touched on the issue of wider understanding, which I guess is a matter both for the public and for policy makers. What has to change in that respect? I was struck by the phrase “cornerstone delivery vehicle”, which was used, I think, by Pauline Lunn. I think that we see this almost as a separate project or thing, not as that kind of vehicle. I know that it is quite a big question, but what has to change to ensure that we get that visibility?

Thank you for that answer, Professor Din. Do you have any notion of which groups of people were more likely to not come forward? We can probably intuitively guess which ones those will be. Are we talking about older people? Is there a greater impact on access to that first line of care for folk from areas of greater deprivation?

That is helpful.

I wonder whether other panel members have an opinion on the impact of the budget pressures that everyone is facing and about the pausing of capital spending—of spending on capacity, I guess.

I am sure that we will dig into that in a little while. Peter Hastie, do you have any reflections on those questions?

So you might come in at the end. Willie, are you content?

On that wonderful note, that brings our evidence session to a conclusion. Thank you, Professor Logan. I know that it has been informative for all of us around the table.

We will now have a suspension until 10.55 to allow for a change of witnesses.

Colleagues will ask questions on that, and we will certainly give you the opportunity to talk about it.

Thank you for being with us this morning. Your STER report made a total of 34 recommendations, 11 of which related to education. In your assessment, to what extent has progress been made on the education recommendations?

Can you give us a flavour of what an entrepreneurial campus might look like for a student?

I will bring in Ben Macpherson for a supplementary, and then Pam Duncan-Glancy and Michelle Thomson will probe this very topic a bit more.