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Why does the bill provide for the negative parliamentary procedure?

I might come back to that.

The World Health Organization has a definition of what a health-promoting school is, which includes the environment, the community in which the school resides, the ability to teach kids where their food comes from and all the rest of it. Has that been referenced, or was it looked at during the drawing up of the bill?

I might be going over old ground, but, in relation to the definition of a good food nation, which Rachael Hamilton has just mentioned, the best definition that I have heard came from James Withers. He said that, if we want a good food nation bill, we have to be a good food nation, which will require a culture change. However, that is an aside.

Let us go back to the subject of local authorities, as opposed to national Government, being responsible. You can correct me if I am wrong, but I take it that local authorities will have discretion within the confines of what you give them as a plan to work to. Certain local authorities will get that approach and say that it is vital, but others will say, “We need to get the building sorted out.” How can we ensure that local authorities buy into the idea of setting up a good food nation plan?

What sort of functions does the bill team expect will come under section 4? It states that

“The Scottish Ministers must ... have regard to the national good food nation plan”

when exercising certain functions.

It would be.

So, elements of education could be included in that catch-all system.

That is what I hear anecdotally from people who are coming to me.

I have a very quick question for Graeme Dey, and then I will have to come back to you, Professor Leitch. I apologise. Can the Scottish Government force GPs to take all face-to-face appointments?

That is the answer that I needed. It was either yes or no, so I am happy with that answer.

We have talked at great length about vaccination resistance, and we will come to the vaccination passport process. I heard you speaking on the radio—I think that it was yesterday morning—about there still being resistance to vaccination in the 18 to 29-year-old age group. Is there still resistance among ethnic minorities and among any other age groups that we should know about?