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The next item on our agenda is consideration of a negative instrument. The purpose of the instrument is to amend the National Health Service (Free Prescriptions and Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 in respect of prescription charges that are applied to English prescription forms if they are presented for dispensing in Scotland. That is in alignment with the increased charges in England.

The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the instrument at its meeting on 17 September 2024 and made no recommendations in relation to it, and no motion to annul has been lodged.

Members do not have any comments, so I propose that the committee does not make any recommendations in relation to the instrument. Are we agreed?

Members indicated agreement.

No, we are on theme 2.

I thank the witnesses for their evidence this morning. It has been very helpful to the committee in its scrutiny of stage 2 of the bill. The witnesses are free to leave, but the committee will continue with its work.

Emma Harper has a brief supplementary.

At our next meeting next week, we will continue taking oral evidence on the Scottish Government’s proposed stage 2 amendments to the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill, with three further panels of witnesses.

The next item is the first session of our scrutiny of the Scottish Government’s proposed stage 2 amendments to the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill. I welcome Keir Greenaway, senior organiser at GMB Scotland; Simon Macfarlane, regional manager at Unison; Katie MacGregor, policy and public affairs lead at the Royal College of Occupational Therapists, who is representing the Allied Health Professions Federation Scotland; and Colin Poolman, director of the Royal College of Nursing Scotland. We move straight to questions.

We will come to that later under another theme, Mr Sweeney.

We continue our scrutiny of the Scottish Government’s proposed stage 2 amendments to the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill with a second panel of witnesses. I welcome Pauline Lunn, director of In Control Scotland, who is representing the national self-directed support collaboration; Stephen Morgan, chief social work officer for Dumfries and Galloway, who is representing Social Work Scotland; and Frank Reilly, independent adviser on adults and the NCS, who is representing the Scottish Association of Social Work. We move straight to questions.

You must be brief as we must move to another theme; we only have five minutes left.

Thank you for your brevity.