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Over the past weeks, you have stated to various committees, including this one, that local authority functions and staff might not be transferred to care boards at all and that care boards will merely act as a provider of last resort to ensure continuity and quality of service. In what circumstances would you deem transfer to be necessary?

You said in your response that you have made a joint statement of intent with COSLA on making improvements now. How many meetings have you and your officials had with COSLA since the statement was made? Can you name one change that you will make?

Yes.

My questions are mainly for Elinor Jayne. First, what impact might the national care service proposals have on the work of alcohol and drug partnerships? Moreover, is there sufficient clarity in the bill, given that, as we know, drug and alcohol services are not included in it?

Can you explain why you think the service could put things “at risk”?

Okay. From what you are saying, time and resource are the two key asks, which I suppose most people would want. However, when it comes to time and resource, what would be the best way to put them in place for people with, in the case of your organisation, alcohol dependency? My follow-up question is based on what you just said about Aberdeen being a good example. How do we see good examples relating to alcohol being rolled out across the country?

My question is to Susan Webster but is open to anyone else would like to answer. We have heard a lot about the co-design process. What evaluation, safeguards and transparency should we have in primary legislation before we start the co-design process to review what the Scottish Government produces?

The primary legislation is the framework bill and the co-design is where the implementation will happen and where we will see what the plans are. What needs to be in the framework bill to enable us to evaluate effectively what we get after the co-design process? The bill will be passed—or not passed—before the co-design process.

I turn to Adam Stachura. From speaking to Age Scotland’s Scottish ethnic minority older people forum, it is clear to me that we have not heard enough from people from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. I would like to know what their hopes and fears are. For example, we spoke about tea. Tea is important to someone who is Indian because we drink chai, not tea. That might seem like a little thing, but it really does matter. Give me a little of the flavour of what you were hearing.

I can. Thank you.

Many of the witnesses have highlighted a lack of detail. I think that we heard a little bit of that in response to the previous question, but I am afraid that I did not hear all the answers. Starting with Hannah Tweed, will the witnesses highlight any specific areas of the bill on which the Government needs to provide more detail?