Before I speak to the amendments in this first group, I want to put on record my thanks to the minister and her officials for drafting a series of amendments and, indeed, improving my humble efforts at stage 2.

Amendments 2, 4 and 9 are designed to create a digital health and social care record. Amendment 2 will place a duty on the Scottish ministers to exercise the powers in part 2 of the bill to create an information-sharing scheme and lay down information standards. That is in order to ensure that every person who receives healthcare or a social care service in Scotland can have a digital care record. The amendment will secure the delivery of a digital care record to address the issues that were highlighted in the independent review of adult social care.

That record will be crucial in ensuring that the right people have access to the right information at the right time. It will help to reduce the upset and frustration that are caused to people who receive care when they have to retell their story again and again across all points of their care. A digital care record will also empower individuals by giving them the ability to more easily access their own health and care information and contribute to it where it is appropriate to do so.

Amendments 4 and 9 make technical adjustments to make references to health and social care information throughout part 2 of the bill consistent with the definition that will be inserted by amendment 2.

I move amendment 2.