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We will move on to talk about fair work.

I think that that question is best directed to Fiona Collie, because it leads on nicely from what she has just said.

Members will want to dig deeper into a lot of what you said, in particular around unpaid carers, but first I will come to Professor Bell.

I have extended the time for the panel, and I hope that everyone can stay with us for the next 15 minutes, because we still have key issues to consider. We said that we wanted to focus on unpaid carers, so we will move on to talk about them.

Thank you.

David Walsh picked up on some of the other issues that colleagues will come in on, but also highlighted what I was driving at, which is the interdependence of different portfolio areas with regard to Government having an impact on health outcomes. You picked up on the idea of economic inequality having a direct impact; we could say the same for educational inequality.

I will come back to you with another question before I go to colleagues. Last week, one of our witnesses commented that every Government minister is a health minister and that we should view health outcomes through the lens of absolutely everything else that we do. What are your thoughts on that? What could be the impact on health outcomes of a universal basic income, for example?

Emma Harper has questions on that theme.

Paul, do you want to come back on any of that?

The finance of what?

Which consultation? For the national care service?

No, that is fine. I thought that it would be more of a general point. If anyone wants to come in on that, please let me know.