Official Report, Finance and Constitution Committee, 5 Lockdown
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Meeting of the Parliament (Hybrid) Wednesday 17 June 2020 Session 5 © Parliamentary copyright. Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body Information on the Scottish Parliament’s copyright policy can be found on the website - www.parliament.scot or by contacting Public Information on 0131 348 5000 Wednesday 17 June 2020 CONTENTS Col. FIRST MINISTER’S QUESTION TIME ..................................................................................................................... 1 Schools Reopening ...................................................................................................................................... 2 Schools Reopening ...................................................................................................................................... 7 Climate Targets .......................................................................................................................................... 10 Childcare ..................................................................................................................................................... 12 Ferry Tickets (Island Residents) ................................................................................................................. 15 People with Dementia (Lockdown) ............................................................................................................. 16 National Health Service (Restart of Services) ............................................................................................ 17 Civil Service Jobs (East Kilbride) ................................................................................................................ 19 Care Homes (Discharge from Hospital)...................................................................................................... 19 Covid-19 Testing......................................................................................................................................... 20 Food (Support for Families) ........................................................................................................................ 20 School Leavers (Support Services) ............................................................................................................ 21 Aerospace and Aviation (Job Losses) ........................................................................................................ 21 Job Retention Scheme ............................................................................................................................... 22 Social Distancing ....................................................................................................................................... 23 Brexit Transition Period .............................................................................................................................. 24 Scouts Scotland (Third Sector Resilience Fund) ........................................................................................ 24 Brexit (Economic Impact) ........................................................................................................................... 25 Island Communities (Lockdown) ................................................................................................................ 26 Independent Ferry Operators (Business Support) ..................................................................................... 26 PROVISIONAL OUTTURN 2019-20 ..................................................................................................................... 28 Statement—[Kate Forbes]. The Cabinet Secretary for Finance (Kate Forbes) ..................................................................................... 28 JUSTICE SECTOR RESPONSE, RECOVERY AND RENEWAL .................................................................................. 39 Statement—[Humza Yousaf]. The Cabinet Secretary for Justice (Humza Yousaf) ................................................................................... 39 MENTAL HEALTH TRANSITION AND RECOVERY .................................................................................................. 52 Statement—[Clare Haughey]. The Minister for Mental Health (Clare Haughey) ........................................................................................ 52 BUSINESS MOTION ........................................................................................................................................... 63 Motion moved—[Liz Smith]—and agreed to. ANIMALS AND WILDLIFE (PENALTIES, PROTECTIONS AND POWERS) (SCOTLAND) BILL: STAGE 3 ........................ 64 ANIMALS AND WILDLIFE (PENALTIES, PROTECTIONS AND POWERS) (SCOTLAND) BILL ..................................... 154 Motion moved—[Mairi Gougeon]. The Minister for Rural Affairs and the Natural Environment (Mairi Gougeon) ......................................... 154 Finlay Carson (Galloway and West Dumfries) (Con) ............................................................................... 157 Claudia Beamish (South Scotland) (Lab) ................................................................................................. 158 Mark Ruskell (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Green) ......................................................................................... 160 Liam McArthur (Orkney Islands) (LD) ....................................................................................................... 161 Gillian Martin (Aberdeenshire East) (SNP) ............................................................................................... 163 Colin Smyth (South Scotland) (Lab) ......................................................................................................... 164 Rachael Hamilton (Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire) (Con) ............................................................... 165 Mairi Gougeon .......................................................................................................................................... 167 DOMESTIC ABUSE BILL .................................................................................................................................. 169 Motion moved—[Humza Yousaf]. PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW (IMPLEMENTATION OF AGREEMENTS) BILL ....................................................... 170 Motion moved—[Humza Yousaf]. BUSINESS MOTION ......................................................................................................................................... 171 Motion moved—[Graeme Dey]—and agreed to. PARLIAMENTARY BUREAU MOTIONS ............................................................................................................... 173 Motions moved—[Graeme Dey]. DECISION TIME .............................................................................................................................................. 174 1 17 JUNE 2020 2 number of Covid-19 deaths in care homes Scottish Parliament reduced again, from 42 to 35. Wednesday 17 June 2020 All those figures are still higher than I would ever wish them to be and I know that downward trends will never console those who have lost [The Presiding Officer opened the meeting at loved ones. My thoughts and sympathies continue 12:20] to be with all of them. However, as I have said, the weekly number of Covid deaths has now fallen for First Minister’s Question Time seven weeks in a row, and they are now at less than a ninth of their peak level. The numbers of The Presiding Officer (Ken Macintosh): Good excess deaths and care home deaths also afternoon, colleagues. As usual, I remind continue to fall. members to be careful about observing social distancing guidance in the chamber and Tomorrow, I expect to be able to confirm that we throughout the building, but particularly when can move from phase 1 to phase 2 of our plan to coming into and out of the chamber. emerge from lockdown. I will set out much more detail on that tomorrow. However, we will continue I ask the First Minister to introduce First to proceed in a cautious and phased way because Minister’s question time with a short statement. the more we hammer down the virus now, the The First Minister (Nicola Sturgeon): Thank more normality we can ultimately get back in all you, Presiding Officer. I will give a brief statistical aspects of our lives. update. Our test and protect system is, of course, vitally Since yesterday, an additional 21 cases of important to our plans to emerge safely from Covid-19 have been confirmed, which takes the lockdown. Health Protection Scotland has just total number now to 18,066. A total of 965 patients published further data on that system, showing are currently in hospital with suspected or that, from 28 May to last Sunday, 992 cases were confirmed Covid-19, which is a decrease of 21 reported in which the individual tested positive. since yesterday. That includes a decrease of 14 in Contact tracing has already been completed for the number of confirmed cases. As of last night, 891 of those cases and is on-going in others. In 24 people were in intensive care with confirmed or total, 1,239 contacts have been traced so far. I suspected Covid-19, which is an increase of five remind everyone watching that if they have on the number that I reported yesterday. However, symptoms of Covid-19, they should book a test I stress that that increase is all in suspected immediately and follow the advice on self-isolation. cases. Unfortunately, in the past 24 hours, nine Again, I ask everyone