Professor Malcolm MacLachlan:

I am sure there will be variations. Earlier, it might have been when the Deputy was at the other meeting, I referred to a webinar we held attended by 900 clinicians. Clinicians presented examples of good practices in delivering remote services including speech and language therapists. We have done other work on behalf of the national clinical programme for people with disability which has looked at more than 120 service providers and their experiences of providing online service. I take the Deputy's point that we need to ensure there is a systemic, joined-up approach so that we do not have pockets of good practice but it becomes the culture throughout the whole system. We will take the Deputy's remarks on board.

I would like to emphasise again that in the national clinical programme for people with disabilities our remit is to implement the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. We are very genuine about the whole idea of "nothing about us without us". There will be several people with disabilities on the disability advisory group and the first chairperson will also be a person with a disability. The Deputy should rest assured that we are very committed to ensuring that the perspective of the service user is to the forefront of developing our services.