Well, thank you for that answer. ‘Coming weeks’ can mean anything, so I’m hoping that it will be very few weeks before you are able to do that.

As you know, the stakeholder consultation raised grave concerns about the effective removal of 24-hour nursing presence in nursing homes and moving to a remote supervision of nursing care by a responsible person, who would be a nurse, who could be covering any number of homes. In particular, we were told that it would result in increased demand on district nurses and out-of-hours provision locally if the responsible person was some distance away when the nursing need arose. I’m sure you’d agree that early nursing intervention avoids escalation of a need into something even more distressing for the individual and more expensive for the NHS. Can you tell me about any assessment that you or the Cabinet Secretary may have done of this displaced demand, and what modelling has been done to establish whether there’s any capacity for our diminishing number of district nurses and out-of-hours cover to meet that displaced demand?