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Are you content with that response, Ms Mochan, or would you like to ask a follow-up question?

Sandesh Gulhane has a short supplementary question.

We have come to the end of our questions. I thank you for your time this morning, cabinet secretary, and I thank Caroline Lamb, Professor Leitch and Donna Bell, too. We look forward to seeing you again for more updates on a lot of the things that you have mentioned today. Before I let you go, do you want to say anything else to the committee about your priorities for the future?

I welcome everyone to the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee’s third meeting in 2021. No apologies have been received and all members are present.

Item 1 on our agenda is to decide whether to take in private item 4, which is consideration of the evidence that we hear on session 6 priorities for the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care. Do members agree to do so?

Members indicated agreement.

Item 2 is evidence from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care on his priorities for session 6. All our witnesses are appearing remotely this morning. I welcome the cabinet secretary, Humza Yousaf, who is joined by Caroline Lamb, director general for health and social care and chief executive of NHS Scotland; Professor Jason Leitch, national clinical director; and Donna Bell, director for mental health and social care. Good morning to you all.

My colleague Paul O’Kane has the first question for you, cabinet secretary.

Looking at the topical issue of certification from a clinical point of view—the COVID-19 Recovery Committee might want to look at it from a different point of view—we are proposing to join quite a few other European nations in having vaccination certificates. From that point of view and with regard to the mitigation of the impacts of Covid, what is the rationale behind certificates? You have referred to the idea of heat versus light. There is a lot of heat around the civil liberties aspect of vaccination certificates, but there has not been enough discussion about the clinical rationale behind the Government’s decision.

Before I move to other lines of questioning, I wish to highlight long Covid, which we are now having to grapple with. Many people seem to be suffering its effects. What is the overall strategy for assisting people who are suffering the complex symptoms of long Covid?

I will now go back to Sandesh Gulhane, who has some questions about staffing.

Paul O’Kane has a cancer-related question while we are on that topic.

It is lovely to hear your daughter cheering on the idea of a women’s health plan, cabinet secretary. Do you have any follow-up questions, Gillian?