Thank you for that response. I don't believe a word of that explanation for the delay, and I don't believe the Minister herself believes that explanation either. It's 15 years since the Government published its first strategy on e-prescribing. If it's another five years, 20 years will have passed, and, in the meantime, England and Scotland have been able to hold people's hands or whatever needs to be done, and have managed to introduce e-prescribing.

I spoke to one GP recently who was embarrassed when talking to colleagues over the border, or in other parts of the UK, and explaining that she still had to work on paper. To explain the scale of the problem, there was one doctor I was talking to in my constituency who says that he has to deal by hand with 4,000 repeat prescriptions, and that means a lack of time, then, in dealing with patients, and actually seeing those patients. And the question from another GP: why not, in last week's statement, make it clear that you would be willing to prioritise e-prescribing in primary care? Because that's not what they read into that announcement.