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Okay. What are your views on whether other measures should have been funded to improve that rate of recovery and on other funding for the future?

That is helpful.

Okay, thank you. Antony wanted to come back in as well.

Good morning. I want to ask about funding that was allocated in 2021-2022 to support the recovery of services. Some £5 million pounds was made available for ventilation improvements, and in 2021, £7.5 million was made available for the purchase of electric red band handpieces and motors. Did the funding improve the ability of practices to see more patients, and did it build long-term resilience into the system?

Okay, thanks—that is helpful. My understanding is that a dispute resolution function is built into the “Resources and Waste Provisional Common Framework”. Has the DRS been raised as a dispute under the framework? If not, has that been done under the intergovernmental relations dispute resolution process?

I was going to ask the minister about the common frameworks process and the way that that is managed across other parts of the UK. During your exchange with Mark Ruskell, you said—you can correct me if I am mischaracterising it in any way—that the Scottish Government had been following the common frameworks process but that the UK Government had not followed the process that it itself had set. Euan Page said that the process was under strain. That is the process that will make things work, if you like, and it is through that that those disagreements would be aired. Is there scope to make it function when it is not currently doing so? Alternatively, do you think that we have gone past that stage?

Does that represent a change, or is that the same as it was before?

David or Joanne, do you have anything to add?

Transport Focus identifies value for money as passengers’ number 1 priority, but it found that only 65 per cent of ScotRail passengers considered their trip to be value for money. I am interested in your views on that. What are your organisations doing, collectively or individually, to lower the cost of rail travel?

Can you explain to the committee the link between timetable and fares?