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I want to pick up on the financial impact of going to prison. When someone gets released from prison, do the jobs that they can get pay much less? Indeed, will they struggle to get any job whatsoever?

Dr Jackson, I am keen to ask you for some specific examples of systemic racism. Following on from that, are there any examples of good practice—perhaps in local work—that we could push forward as Scotland-wide policies?

Dr Jackson, what can we do to improve our understanding of the systemic issues that you have described?

I would like to hear more about Dr Jackson’s comment that systemic racism is operating in Scotland. We are all aware of the problems that the pandemic highlighted for people from black and ethnic minorities in jobs that were more front facing, but the phrase “systemic racism” really struck me. I would like to explore a little more what you meant by that.

Because of what the convener said earlier about rolling questions in, I will start with a question that I had for Claire Sweeney. You said earlier that you want to work with communities on improvement. I have found that information leaflets in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde are provided in Urdu, Arabic, Romanian, Polish and Chinese, but there is nothing in Hindi for what is a large community in Glasgow. What can we do to stop that type of thing happening and to be more inclusive?

My question is to Dr Purdon. You mentioned this in your presentation, but I would like to know your opinion about putting calories on menus. You have articulated the benefits of doing that, and I think that we can all see clear benefits. However, I have been contacted by a number of constituents who have eating disorders. They are scared that such labelling will lead them back down the route of anorexia or anxiety. What are your thoughts about balancing those concerns?

Although I am in favour of the instrument, I have a concern about why the level of 100 becquerels per kg was set in the first place. If that has a negligible impact, should the level not have been higher?

I want to talk a bit about evidence, data and our successes.

Audit Scotland has said that we need far more robust data, which seems to be a theme that runs throughout healthcare; we need far more robust data on long-standing health inequalities. When I was training in medical school back in 2000, Glasgow was used as an example of a place that had great inequality. What data gaps do we have, and how can the Scottish Government step up to try to fill in that information, so that we can get more robust data?

Gerry McCartney talked about minimum unit pricing as a marker of success, but there is a bit of controversy around how successful the measure has been and whether increasing the minimum price per unit would make a difference. I would be interested to hear a bit more about that from him.

It is very important that people do not put words into the mouths of the questioners. I was asking a question; I was certainly not referring to a right-wing think tank, and I do not think that that comment was very appropriate.