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Professor Banks, do you want to come in first? Then we will go to Professor Britton.

I believe that Professor Banks wants to come in on that point.

Professor Britton and Professor Banks both want to come in.

I call Carol Mochan.

Thank you, Ms Maguire, and welcome to the committee.

Good morning, and welcome to the 34th meeting in 2023 of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee. I have received no apologies.

The first item on our agenda is to invite Ruth Maguire to declare any interests that are relevant to the committee’s remit.

The third item on our agenda is an evidence session on the public health impact of vaping. We will hear from representatives of Public Health Scotland, anti-smoking charities and academics with expertise in tobacco control and vaping. I welcome to the meeting Professor Emily Banks, head of the centre of epidemiology for policy and practice at the Australian National University and visiting professor in the Nuffield department of population health at the University of Oxford; and Professor John Britton, emeritus professor of epidemiology at the University of Nottingham. Both are joining us remotely. With us here are Sheila Duffy, the chief executive of ASH Scotland; and Dr Garth Reid, consultant in public health at Public Health Scotland.

We will move straight to questions.

Good morning, and welcome to the 33rd meeting in 2023 of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee. I have received no apologies for today’s meeting.

Under agenda item 1, I welcome Ivan McKee to the committee and ask him to declare any interests that are relevant to the committee’s remit.

Ivan McKee has some questions.

Including on theme 8, on policies and modelling?