Good afternoon. The first item of business is time for reflection, for which our leader is the Rev Maurice Callaghan, the parish priest at St John the Baptist church in Port Glasgow.

The next item of business is consideration of business motion S5M-12980, in the name of Joe FitzPatrick, on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, which sets out a revised business programme for...

1. To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that ScotRail missed its punctuality targets for every reporting period in the last year. (S5T-01178)

2. To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the result of the United Kingdom Parliament’s vote on Heathrow expansion and its implications for Scotland. (S5T-01174)

The next item of business is a statement by John Swinney on Scotland’s education reforms. As usual, the cabinet secretary will take questions at the end of his statement.

The next item of business is a debate on defending the powers of the Scottish Parliament. We have a little time in hand, so interventions should be short, as should the responses, or we will run...

There are no questions to be put as a result of today’s business, so we move on to members’ business.

The final item of business today is a members’ business debate on motion S5M-12842, in the name of Richard Leonard, on the NHS’s 70th birthday. The debate will be concluded without...