Cabinet Secretary, co-responders are an essential part of the ambulance service provision, not least in rural areas. Their role is also being increasingly felt as, when attending amber or even green calls, what they discover is a person whose status was red, or whose status had become red due to the delay, which they can either deal with themselves or escalate. Can you confirm that you've been asked by the ambulance service to transfer the responsibility for funding this essential service to health boards, who are, bar one, already overspent, and that you've been asked that co-responders should only be sent out to red calls, thereby jeopardising the safety of those whose calls have been wrongly categorised, or which have become more serious due to delay? If you have, will your response to both those questions be 'no'?