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For clarity for everyone, will you define smoking? Obviously, using cigarettes is smoking, but does smoking include use of heated tobacco and vaping? Some people would say that there is no nicotine in their vape, so they should be allowed to do that. Can I have some clarity on that, please?

I just reiterate that it is important that we include all products including vaping.

I agree. I said earlier that I agree that vaping has an important potential role to play in the reduction of cigarette smoking. I do not know of many things that could be worse than cigarette smoking when it comes to harm, quite frankly.

We know that vaping will cause less harm, but the point that I am trying to raise is that vaping produces a big cloud of smoke. You might not be one of the people who does that in certain areas but, if I am walking up to a hospital, through hospital doors or in the grounds, I do not want to be faced with that big plume of smoke. Even though we do not have a lot of evidence about its effects, I would not like to be walking through that. If everyone is vaping outside the entrances, that is absolutely not what I would like to see.

I think that we could have a balance. We heard from the minister that we cannot put vaping in, because that needs primary legislation—that is absolutely fair enough—but we should be looking for a way of ensuring that there is clarity that people should not smoke on hospital grounds and that they do not vape there, either, because I just do not want to be walking through a cloud of smoke.

Before I get into my questions on systemic inequality, I wonder whether the minister would join me in asking anyone who is available for any screening programme to attend it.

As a doctor, I am obviously supportive of the idea of not smoking around the entrances to hospitals. I have seen people smoking outside the children’s hospital in Glasgow, with the smoke going up to the children inside.

I have a few questions. NHS Forth Valley has been trying to enforce no-smoking areas. It has introduced big cross hatches, and somebody goes around telling people not to smoke. That person gets an awful lot of abuse. I understand that we will allow environmental health officers to issue fixed-penalty notices, but how do we prevent such abuse?

Good morning, minister. What is the gender pay gap in the Scottish NHS?

It is 18.2 per cent, and the Scottish NHS is fully devolved. Why have you not improved that?

This is different from a child going to school, because the funding goes over 52 weeks. In other words, if your child is born in February, their place will be funded for the six months up to August. However, that is not the case for a child born between March and August. That is different from what you set out in your answer. Why is that?

Thank you, minister.

I move on to my questions on the theme. Do you feel that there is systemic racism within the Scottish NHS?

Minister, you have mentioned the provision of 1,140 hours of ELC, but what is the position for a child who turns three between March and August? Is it the case that no funding will be available for those children during those six months? You have talked about the importance of being able to parent and about the policy allowing that to happen, so why is it that, if a child turns three between March and August, no funding will be available?