I’m happy to reiterate that of course we’re engaging with the BMA, through their general practitioners committee in Wales, and the Royal College of GPs as well. We have been engaged with them in a meaningful discussion in advance of this announcement. And, of course, there will continue to be conversations with the UK Government. But, with all due respect to the comments that have been made about GPs in England being potentially in a more advantageous position, or the previous questions and comments about there being clarity in England, there isn’t. There absolutely isn’t. This is an announcement about a direction of travel and saying there can be a state-backed scheme. The detail of what it really means has not been worked out and is not clear to GP representatives in England or in any of the devolved nations.

And this challenge about what exactly is a state-backed scheme, it really isn’t clear. If the state, the UK, is going to stand behind a scheme in England, but not in the devolved nations, that would be a very big problem, and I don’t believe for one single second that the BMA would sign up to a scheme that uniquely advantaged practitioners in England but not their members in Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales. There’s a need to have a grown-up conversation about what this means, what our options are here in Wales, how whatever answer we have fits the needs of our practitioners here in Wales and the public they serve, but equally to make sure that the state is not used to particularly advantage one part of the United Kingdom over others. And I would have thought that people in all parties would recognise that that’s the position for us to adopt and expect to hold the UK Government to account—that it is certainly where GPs themselves are in every nation across the UK.