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We will turn now to questions from Foysol Choudhury, who is joining us online.

Who would you like to direct that question to?

Thank you very much. As no other witnesses have indicated that they want to come in, I will move on. Before we do, I would be grateful if members could direct their questions to specific members of the panel to ease the flow of the meeting. Thank you. We will move on to theme 2. We have touched on it a little bit, but I will move to questions from Emma Roddick.

Fabulous.

I thank all the witnesses for appearing, particularly given the very early start. I briefly suspend the meeting to allow the witnesses to change over.

Pam Duncan-Glancy has a follow-up question. After that, you can move on to your next questions.

Before we move on to our next questions, I want to address something that we have not touched on. We have heard that the ethical commissioning strategies must reflect the principles of the national care service. Important in that is including the principle of fair work. To what extent do you feel that those strategies will ensure that fair work is embedded in the national care service? I will go to Cara Stevenson first, because I know that the GMB commented on that.

Do you think that the principles need to be stronger?

We move to the appointment of our new convener. On 15 June 2021, the Parliament agreed by motion S6M-00393 that members of the Scottish National Party are eligible to be chosen as convener and deputy convener of this committee. I ask members for nominations for our new convener.

I welcome Emma Roddick as the deputy convener. We will suspend very briefly to change seats.

Our next item of business is a decision on whether to take items 6 and 7 in private. Do members agree to do so?

Members indicated agreement.