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For years, have we just never asked people how they feel about the treatment and services that they have had?

I have a question about the target that 10 per cent of front-line health spending should be on mental health services by 2026. There is a lack of clarity about what counts as the front line and what counts as mental health services, and we need clarity if we are to properly report on that target. Where are we with that? Are we making any progress in making things a bit clearer so that boards can report for us?

I look forward to that.

Is there a diagnostic pathway for adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder? I ask that because I have a number of constituency cases, and there appears to be no such pathway. Can colleagues help us with that query? Is any work going on to try to address that?

There is a really interesting table in the report about access to services through digital means. As usual, it highlights quite a difference across Scotland in whether consultations are digital or face to face. I was taken by the NHS Ayrshire and Arran figure being the highest in Scotland for face-to-face consultations. Will you offer us a few ideas on what is going on there? Why is the situation so varied across Scotland? Is there any observed impact on the difference between face-to-face and digital consultations?

I was just looking at the table in your report again, and it shows that the pictures in Orkney and Shetland are almost opposite to each other on digital or face to face; they seem to be polar opposites. In the Western Isles, the number of telephone and video appointments is incredibly high compared with the number of face-to-face ones. There are even differences between rural settings and the islands; there are very different pictures. Anyway, I will leave that query for another time.

My last question relates to another point in your report. In paragraph 29, you say that the Government issued its planning guidance to IJBs as part of its plans for improvement in mental health and wellbeing care services and that we expected a further publication in April 2022, but it has not yet appeared. Can you offer some more comments on that, and tell us when we might expect it?

I thank everyone for their responses to those questions.

Good.

Okay. Thank you very much for those responses.

Thank you, convener. I hope to come back in later in the meeting.

Thanks. Minister, do you have a view on that?