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I thank all the witnesses for your honest and thorough contributions. I am sure that the committee will find your evidence very helpful when we pull together our report on the inquiry.

At our next meeting on 2 May, we will continue our scrutiny of national health service boards and take formal evidence as part of our scrutiny of the complex mesh surgical service. That concludes the public part of our meeting.

We do not often see women’s sport on the back pages in the print media.

The second item on our agenda is to decide whether to take items 4 and 5 in private. Are members agreed?

Members indicated agreement.

Is it that other sports are second class in comparison with football?

We will move on to our next theme.

I have two other members who want to come in with questions. I am conscious that we are getting to the end of our time, so I will go to Paul O’Kane and then Tess White.

We will move on and pick up on Bobby Hain’s point about broadcasting and reporting, and the roles within that. Tess White will start.

Sandesh Gulhane has a brief supplementary question on this theme.

I was interested in what you said about an underlying current of harassment, sexism or what is interpreted as “banter”, and how no one would report it. What were the barriers to some of those women and young girls reporting how they were made to feel or what was said in their presence?

Perhaps we can bring in the remote participants, because I am conscious that we have not heard a great deal from them. Lee Craigie, do you want to kick off with a view from cycling?