1. To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on when the reports on the operation of the Fife ethylene plant at Mossmorran by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and the...

3. To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made in addressing the areas for improvement identified in the Healthcare Improvement Scotland report, “Review of Adult Mental...

4. To ask the Scottish Government what funding is provided for social work services, and how it ensures that these services are adequately staffed and have the appropriate facilities and...

5. To ask the Scottish Government what value it places on local decision making in planning matters. (S5O-03250)

6. To ask the Scottish Government what analysis the Minister for Local Government, Housing and Planning has undertaken of whether complaints against property factors and letting agents are being...

8. To ask the Scottish Government whether it is satisfied that everything possible is being done to aid the recovery of Sauchiehall Street following the Glasgow School of Art fire. (S5O-03253)

1. Marking national numeracy day yesterday, the Deputy First Minister declared that all of us need to have a good grasp of numeracy. I agree. Can the First Minister tell us how much numeracy...

2. This week is mental health awareness week. As a society, we are increasingly open about, and understanding of, mental health. However, we must also recognise that we need to do much more to...

The First Minister might be aware that the provision of out-of-hours services in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde continues to be a significant problem. Last year, the out-of-hours service at the...

The First Minister will be aware of the issue regarding Sabir Zazai, chief executive of the Scottish Refugee Council. The University of Glasgow, which is in my constituency, is awarding Sabir an...

Given the fact that Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd air traffic controllers propose to take strike action on Thursday of next week, can the First Minister update Parliament on the Scottish...

This week, data from the University of Loughborough was published that revealed that child poverty levels in Glasgow are running at 37 per cent. In the First Minister’s Glasgow Southside...

3. More than a decade ago, the first budget concession that the Greens ever won from the Scottish National Party was the climate challenge fund. Since then, it has funded more than 1,000...

4. This week, a general practitioner told me that he had stopped referring patients to mental health services because the waiting times are so long and there is no prospect of people ever getting...

The Prime Minister’s Brexit deal has been dead now for some months and the United Kingdom Government is wasting the Brexit extension, with no meaningful talks having taken place. Any...

Scotland’s college lecturers are on strike again today. Indeed, they are demonstrating outside Parliament as we speak. All they want is a fair cost-of-living pay increase in line with...

Brexit still has not happened, but the damage is already being done. Today, there are doubts whether Thomas Cook, a travel company with 180 years of history, can continue as a going concern. Does...

5. To ask the First Minister how the Scottish Government is marking mental health awareness week. (S5F-03339)

6. To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government’s response is to the Scottish Heart Failure Nurse Forum’s warning of a “potential crisis in care delivery”....

The next item of business is a members’ business debate on motion S5M 16544, in the name of Alexander Stewart, on Community Pharmacy Scotland. The debate will be concluded without any...

I remind members that questions 4, 6 and 8 will be grouped together. Question 1 has been withdrawn, so we begin with question 2.

2. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on when it will bring forward measures to improve the input that victims and their families have into the temporary release...

3. To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures that community payback orders are fully completed. (S5O-03240)

4. To ask the Scottish Government how many divisional police officers there are. (S5O-03241)

6. To ask the Scottish Government by how much police officer numbers have risen over the last year. (S5O-03243)

8. To ask the Scottish Government how many police officers are currently deployed in Ayrshire, and how this compares with May 2007. (S5O-03245)

5. To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to review how children’s interests are best served by family courts. (S5O-03242)

7. To ask the Scottish Government how its new victim support service will help the families of victims of crime and the families of people involved in fatal accidents and sudden deaths. (S5O-03244)

The next item of business is a debate on motion S5M-17304, in the name of Fergus Ewing, on the impact of Brexit on Scotland’s food and drink.

The first question is, that amendment S5M-17304.1, in the name of Donald Cameron, which seeks to amend motion S5M-17304, in the name of Fergus Ewing, on the impact of Brexit on Scotland’s...