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The next item on our agenda is an evidence session on monitoring and evaluation as part of phase 2 of our post-legislative scrutiny of the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013. I welcome Dr Richard Brunner, who is a research associate at the University of Glasgow; Rob Gowans, who is policy and public affairs manager at the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland; James Mahon, who is an economist at the York Health Economics Consortium; and Des McCart, who is senior programme manager for strategic commissioning at Healthcare Improvement Scotland. We will move straight to questions.

James Mahon is online and wants to come in.

Is that you finished, James?

Are you finished with your questions, Tess?

I thank the panel for your attendance today and for the information that you shared with the committee.

I am looking around the committee members and it looks as though they are content for us to do that. I am certainly happy to do it.

The proposal is that the committee does not make any recommendations on the regulations. Does any member disagree with that?

Members: No.

Next week, the committee will hear from the Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport in the concluding oral evidence of phase 2 of its post-legislative scrutiny of the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013.

That concludes the public part of our meeting.

We will come to that later on. Ruth Maguire has a supplementary.

I think that David Aitken wants to come in.

Paul Sweeney joins us online.