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This is going to be a complex area. It’s going to be difficult to deliver. It is a substantial reform and change – one that is necessary and that I support.

This is a national disgrace and a damning indictment of the SNP’s record on protecting vulnerable children.

Victims and survivors have already had to fight to be heard. They should not have to keep chasing the SNP Government to honour the promise it made in February.

We are one year on from Parliament’s historic vote, and the Scottish Government has failed to turn words into action.

I cannot see us resolving the fundamental challenges facing social care without a single line of decision-making, accountability and funding, with the NHS taking the lead.

The Education Committee should now properly examine the growing pressure on private and state schools and the impact these policies are having across Scotland.

Labour promised £150 million to help meet that pressure, but families and schools are still waiting to see it.

Private schools are under mounting financial pressure, while state schools are being left to pick up the pieces as more pupils transfer across.

Scotland’s schools were already under huge pressure thanks to years of SNP-Green mismanagement, and Labour’s VAT raid is now piling on even more.

Am plecat în urmă cu 10 zile cu convingerea că pot convinge partidele afiliate familiilor europene, pentru a le câştiga încrederea. Nu am găsit această atitudine din partea tuturor partidelor.

I left 10 days ago with the conviction that I could convince the parties affiliated with European families to gain their trust. I did not find this attitude from all parties.

I want to make it clear to Parliament today that I will do everything I can, including giving the personal leadership to address this issue to make sure that violence is rooted out in our society.

We have taken action to support women and health professionals to learn more about menstrual health issues such as endometriosis, the symptoms and treatment options but we know there is still a long way to go.

Responsibility for professional development sits with individual healthcare professionals, employers, Public Service Delivery (PSD) Scotland, the royal colleges and other professional bodies.

Women are often treated dismissively by doctors due to gaps in their training on conditions like endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome, ME and long Covid.

The Health Secretary should speak with medical bodies to uncover why training uptake has been so low and what can be done to increase the number of GPs taking part in this training.

The SNP has a responsibility to boost participation in this important scheme and make it as easy as possible for GPs to take part.

This woeful uptake shows there is a gap between rhetoric and delivery when it comes to women’s health.

Approving Jackdaw was just common sense.