Scottish Parliament debates

Thursday, 27 May 2021

  • First Minister’s Question Time

    1 speech

    Good afternoon. I remind members that social distancing measures are in place in the chamber and across the Holyrood campus. I ask that members take care to observe them, including when entering...

  • Relationship with Business

    8 speeches

    1. Does the First Minister agree that the Scottish Government needs to reset its relationship with business?

  • Queen Elizabeth University Hospital

    6 speeches

    2. In November 2019, I shared damning evidence from senior clinicians that contaminated water at the Queen Elizabeth university hospital had led to the deaths of at least one child cancer...

  • Freedom to Crawl Campaign

    4 speeches

    3. The United Kingdom Home Secretary has declared that immigration dawn raids in Glasgow are “what the British public ... voted for”. I expect that the First Minister will agree that...

  • Trade Deal (Australia)

    4 speeches

    4. Congratulations on your new role, Presiding Officer. I look forward to working and engaging with you over the coming years. To ask the First Minister what dialogue the Scottish Government has...

  • Incinerators (Moratorium)

    4 speeches

    5. I congratulate the Presiding Officer on her new role. To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Government plans to implement a national moratorium on incinerators, such as the proposal...

  • Education (Support for Teachers)

    4 speeches

    6. To ask the First Minister what action the Scottish Government plans to take to support teachers with the challenges they face, in light of the reported concerns from teaching unions that there...

  • Lord Advocate and Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (Reform)

    5 speeches

    7. To ask the First Minister what plans the Scottish Government has to reform the roles of the Lord Advocate and Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, in light of the resignations of the...

  • Pladis McVitie’s (Proposed Factory Closure)

    2 speeches

    The First Minister will be aware of the plan by Pladis McVitie’s to close its factory in Tollcross in my constituency, with the potential loss of more than 450 jobs. Will the First Minister...

  • Post-travel Covid-19 Tests (Cost)

    2 speeches

    Recent reports and representations that have been made to me by Aberdeen airport suggest that passengers returning to Scotland from abroad might have to pay more than twice as much for a Covid...

  • Savings Banks Museum (Proposed Closure)

    2 speeches

    The First Minister will be aware that the world’s first savings bank was established by the Rev Henry Duncan in the village of Ruthwell in Dumfriesshire in 1810. The very building that...

  • Universal Credit (Two-child Limit)

    2 speeches

    The Children’s Commissioner said that the United Kingdom Government’s two-child limit is a “clear breach of children’s human rights”. Dropping the universal credit...

  • A9 (Upgrade)

    3 speeches

    Communities in Perthshire and across the Highlands have campaigned for years for the A9 trunk road to be made dual carriageway between Perth and Inverness, so it is good to see works progressing...

  • Covid-19

    58 speeches

    Good afternoon, colleagues. I remind members that social distancing measures are in place in the chamber and across the Holyrood campus. I ask that members take care to observe the measures,...

  • Decision Time

    1 speech

    As there are no questions to be put as a result of today’s business, I close the meeting. Meeting closed at 16:33.

What is this?

The Scottish Parliament is the national legislature of Scotland, located in Edinburgh. The Parliament consists of 129 members known as MSPs, elected for four-year terms; 73 represent individual geographical constituencies, and 56 are regional representatives.

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