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I just want to pick up on some of my earlier questions, particularly with regard to female referees. When I look through your website, the first picture that I see on every landing page that I go to, right down to category 6 referees, is of a man. On the “Become a Referee” page, where you are obviously trying to recruit people, three of the four pictures are of males. When I click on the referee kit shop, I find that all of the clothing appears to be for males and in male sizes. How is the SFA using its website to actively promote female referees, when, as a woman, I see that sort of thing and it seems to me that women are not wanted?

Thank you very much, Mr Maxwell.

Our next meeting will be after the new year, on 16 January, when we will take evidence on the Scottish budget for 2024-25 from the Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care, and I take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy and restful festive period.

That concludes the public part of our meeting today.

Good morning, and welcome to the 39th meeting in 2023 of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee. I have received apologies from Ivan McKee and David Torrance.

The first item on our agenda is to decide whether to take items 5 and 6 in private. Do members agree to take those items in private?

Members indicated agreement.

Does that have an impact on existing health inequalities with regard to oral health?

I will hand back to Tess White.

Thank you. Sandesh Gulhane has a supplementary question.

No, it is not. Here I should declare an interest as a registered mental health nurse. I was using EMIS on Friday in a community addiction team, so I can say that it is used in other parts of the NHS. I am pretty sure that it is used in mental health in-patient services, too.

Tess, I think that Julie Mosgrove wanted to come in earlier.

I just wanted to clarify that.

I thank the committee witnesses for attending today. Just for clarity, and to put it on the record, I must declare an interest: I hold a bank nurse contract with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

We will briefly suspend while we change panels.