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Emma Harper asked about healthy weight. I am keen to ask about smoking and vaping. What are your rates of those? I ask because rates are very high for people who have mental health issues. In addition, what are you doing to reduce them?

On your third sector, I heard of the great work that Penumbra has been doing in the Western Isles. What additional support do you give Penumbra to do the great work that it is already doing?

Absolutely. I highlight something that you said earlier: that the culture is different. You highlighted Ukrainian women and Muslim women, but we are also talking about different types of Muslim women. All the different ethnic groups are different, and the data that you collect will help you.

There are two big things about which I would like to ask. First, how do we encourage more ethnic minority women into just doing some sport, whether that be the gym or participation? Secondly, how do we get those women to be elite? Lynne, because your organisation has the data, I ask you to comment first.

You therefore feel that you are £500,000 short of where you should be.

Can I just pause you there? My question was about the phrase “when necessary”, which you used in response to Tess White. Can you give me some specific examples of when this is necessary?

I would like a one-word answer to my first question, if that is okay, and I might just go down the line of witnesses. Do you hold data on the ethnicity of people who participate in sport in your organisation?

You have made some interesting points about the importance of talking, but my concern about rural and island areas is that people seek help when they are at crisis point rather than when something is becoming an issue. Things are much more easily and probably more quickly sorted at that earlier stage rather than when someone hits crisis.

Social isolation is a huge issue in your rural communities, but it is also something that your health board does not particularly have control over. Do you feel that, with all the methods that you use, you are able to help people with their social isolation?

I assume, Robert Nesbitt, that you do not have that data.

I have some general questions based on my experience as a doctor working in University hospital Ayr, which covers a rural community, in part, along with an urban community. I know that your populations are very different, in that they are all rural. I remember that, whenever I was asked to see a patient who I was told was a farmer, I would drop everything, because farmers do not come to hospital unless something catastrophic has happened. For example, one person amputated their finger while lambing and only came to see me a couple of weeks later.

Bearing that in mind, and how people in rural committees—especially farmers—tend to be, what different approaches do you need to take to look after the mental health of your community compared with how the majority of the population in urban areas are treated?

Is someone’s ethnicity not already out there?