I will come on to talk about some of the detail of the work that we are doing with the industry to provide greater capacity, so that Sue Webber can be reassured.

As I said earlier, even with the short time that we have for them, I welcome such debates as an opportunity to talk in greater detail about the essential nature of community-based healthcare. I am therefore grateful to Willie Rennie and the Liberal Democrats for bringing the debate to the chamber.

In talking about dentistry, it would be remiss of me not to set out, as necessary context for the debate, the impact that the pandemic had on dentistry—for practitioners and for the public who, overnight, lost access to that vital service. It is not hyperbolic to say that the pandemic had, and continues to have, a seismic impact on the dentistry sector—possibly more than on many other health services—because of the nature of dental care and its high reliance on aerosol-generating procedures, and the stringent infection prevention and control measures that were put in place, which effectively stopped activity overnight.