Professor Alexis Jay (Correspondence)

Part of Urgent Question – in the Scottish Parliament at 4:59 pm on 10 December 2025.

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Photo of Douglas Ross Douglas Ross Conservative 4:59, 10 December 2025

It should be the focus of the Parliament, but it is not, because we have been misled. Ministers have not been truthful. They have had to be dragged to the chamber to provide the information that they have been sitting on, not for weeks but for months.

This goes right to the very top, to John Swinney, and it is now a test of his leadership. I believe that, when he leaves the chamber tonight, he will be asked by the media whether he fully supports his justice secretary—and he cannot, because these documents make it very clear that she misled Parliament and that she did not take the immediate opportunity to correct the record.

I will go through that timeline again.