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I thank all the witnesses for sharing their views on that. Staying with somewhat the same theme, I will bring in Miles Briggs, who has a supplementary question on the national care service.

We move to our fourth theme, which is community wealth building. I ask Elena Whitham to open the discussion.

Yes.

I invite Paul Bradley to respond to that question, and we will continue exploring the theme. Elena Whitham also has a couple of questions, so she can come in after Paul.

Thank you. I invite Kim Fellows to go next.

Yes—thank you, Ailsa. You are getting me excited about methodology, too.

I have a supplementary question. Your work was carried out primarily before Covid. Although I do not know the specific numbers, now that we can work remotely, we have had the news that a lot of people are choosing to move to the Highlands. Should we be aware that populations will change?

We move on to our final theme, which is council demographics.

Does Meghan Gallacher want to follow up on that?

I would like to explore the concerns that were raised by Margaret Davidson of Highland Council about the Aird and Loch Ness ward, which is to be split. Highland Council’s view is that the areas around Loch Ness form a community because of their connection to that place, and that the proposal to split the ward would be disruptive.

That brings us to the end of our questions. Thank you so much for joining us this morning. Although the conversation was a bit tricky in the virtual space, we managed it pretty well and it has been helpful. We really appreciate your contributions, which will help us to go forward with our work.