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Thank you for that answer.

Dr Cass, in your response to Paul Sweeney when he asked about unregulated access to hormonal treatment or to puberty blockers, have I picked up correctly that you were saying that it is happening way more than we would wish that children and young people are accessing those medications in an unregulated way?

The third item on our agenda is an evidence session with Food Standards Scotland. I welcome to the committee Heather Kelman, chair; Geoff Ogle, chief executive officer; and Dr Gillian Purdon, chief nutritionist—all from Food Standards Scotland. I invite you to make a brief opening statement.

Thank you, Ms Kelman. We move straight to questions.

We have a lot to get through in the next 45 minutes, so I ask members to keep their questions short and to the point. I ask the witnesses, please, to be a bit more concise with answers.

We must close, I am afraid. We need to finish this part of the meeting by 10 o’clock.

Thank you for your attendance, Dr Cass, and for the information that you have given to the committee. I am sure that it will help us in our further inquiries when we have other interested parties along to speak to us in the coming weeks. Thank you for your time.

I point out to our witnesses that they do not need to do anything to make the microphones work—broadcasting staff do that.

We have already touched on the “eatwell everyday” meal plan. I am keen to know how FSS is measuring people’s engagement with that resource and what tools you are using for that.

It would be helpful to see the figures for visits to the website pages, if you are able to write to the committee with those.

That will give us a baseline so that we can see whether traffic increases after you have refreshed the website.