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My question is about preventative guidance for women and girls. Stress urinary incontinence is a huge issue. When I had my children, I was lucky enough to be given immediate guidance about pelvic floor exercises, what to do after having a baby and so on. Do we need to standardise the information that is given to women and girls? Should it start in schools and be disseminated, to make sure that everyone knows what to do?

Is any programme being considered for schools to talk about that to girls from an earlier age, before they even think about having children?

Good morning. Can you outline for the committee the Government’s current thinking on the financial memorandum? Can you give us an update on work on that?

I am okay on this theme, thanks.

Obviously, the committee had outlined various concerns. Will your response deal with those concerns? Will you be able to offer reassurance?

Do you feel that you will, after you do the engagement activities over the summer, have more meat on the bones, as it were, and be able to offer reassurances?

Thank you.

I have some questions for Mr O’Kelly regarding his comments about educating GPs. Those comments were really difficult to hear, but I think that the sound has been amended and it is now much better, so I will go back to what he was saying.

There is obviously an issue with referrals. GPs do not always know how to deal with them, which is having a knock-on effect on when people are seen. Did you say that the Scottish Government has an education programme to help GPs? What are you doing immediately to help them?

What treatment is being offered to patients on these long waiting lists? What happens to these women while they are waiting?

Thanks, Professor Archibald. That is a great offer. It is certainly one that I would like to take up. Perhaps the committee will chat about that after the meeting.

My second question is for Professor Gardner. Will you tell us more about the firebreak? How did that work, and were there any negative impacts of it?