At a recent meeting with Action on Hearing Loss, I heard a story about a deaf woman who had a sign on her front door saying, ‘I’m sorry but as I can’t hear the bell I am keeping the door open, so do come in’. Now, clearly that’s not acceptable. What she needed, of course, was assistance in getting the necessary technology to inform her when someone was at the door, to keep her safe. The charity notes that the expenditure on equipment to support people who have lost their hearing has more than halved over the four years up to 2014-15 and there is a huge difference in what’s spent from one area to another. As this is within your portfolio, do you agree that we need a strategy to try to ensure, in future, that funding is provided to those people who need it, to help people such as this woman who are at risk because of a lack on investment in the necessary equipment?