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Okay. Thank you. We move to questions from Foysol Choudhury, to be followed by Paul McLennan.

I welcome to the meeting our second panel of witnesses. Kevin Stewart, the Minister for Mental Wellbeing and Social Care, is accompanied by Scottish Government officials Ian Turner, the deputy director for adult social care workforce and fair work, and Anna Kynaston, the deputy director of national care service programme design, engagement and legislation.

I invite the minister to make an opening statement.

Thank you, minister. Overall, 72 per cent of respondents to the consultation on the national care service agreed that the Scottish ministers should be accountable for the delivery of social care through a national care service. What would be the benefits of having that accountability at a ministerial level?

That is fine.

We move to questions from Foysol Choudhury.

I will bring in Paul McLennan.

I must apologise, minister—I skipped over our final theme. We have one theme left, which is carers. We have questions from just one member, Miles Briggs.

We move to our last theme, which is homelessness. We will take questions first from the deputy convener, Emma Roddick.

We will move to Foysol Choudhury, who joins us online.

Miles Briggs has some questions, before we move on to our next theme.