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Meeting of the Parliament Thursday 21 June 2018 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 Thursday 21 June 2018 CONTENTS Col. GENERAL QUESTION TIME .................................................................................................................................. 1 Closing the Gender Pay Gap ........................................................................................................................ 1 Challenging Islamophobia (Media Role) ...................................................................................................... 2 New Housing (Infrastructure) ........................................................................................................................ 3 Moray Council (New Administration) ............................................................................................................ 4 Scottish Wildlife (Mammals) ......................................................................................................................... 6 Secondary Ticket Sales (Events) ................................................................................................................. 7 Violent Crime (Inverclyde and Renfrewshire) ............................................................................................... 8 FIRST MINISTER’S QUESTION TIME ................................................................................................................... 10 Literacy and Numeracy (Standards) ........................................................................................................... 10 Bield Sheltered Housing and Care Homes ................................................................................................. 13 Private Rent Levels (Edinburgh)................................................................................................................. 15 Road Equivalent Tariff (Northern Isles) ...................................................................................................... 16 Stracathro Hospital ..................................................................................................................................... 16 Coul Links (International Obligations) ........................................................................................................ 17 National Testing (Five-year-olds) ............................................................................................................... 17 Hate Crime .................................................................................................................................................. 19 Donald Trump (United Kingdom Visit) ........................................................................................................ 20 Fox Hunting ................................................................................................................................................ 20 National Health Service (Barnett Consequentials) ..................................................................................... 21 Antidepressants (Accidental Drug Deaths) ................................................................................................ 23 Universal Credit (Roll-out Report) .............................................................................................................. 24 The Great Get Together ............................................................................................................................. 25 MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE AWARENESS WEEK ............................................................................................... 28 Motion debated—[Christina McKelvie]. Christina McKelvie (Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse) (SNP) ............................................................... 28 Kezia Dugdale (Lothian) (Lab) .................................................................................................................... 31 Miles Briggs (Lothian) (Con) ....................................................................................................................... 33 Ruth Maguire (Cunninghame South) (SNP) ............................................................................................... 34 Anas Sarwar (Glasgow) (Lab) .................................................................................................................... 36 Brian Whittle (South Scotland) (Con) ......................................................................................................... 37 The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport (Shona Robison) .................................................................. 39 PROVISIONAL OUTTURN 2017-18 ..................................................................................................................... 43 Statement—[Derek Mackay]. The Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Constitution (Derek Mackay) ................................................. 43 WORLD REFUGEE DAY ..................................................................................................................................... 55 Motion moved—[Angela Constance]. Amendment moved—[Michelle Ballantyne]. Amendment moved—[Monica Lennon]. Amendment moved—[Ross Greer]. The Cabinet Secretary for Communities, Social Security and Equalities (Angela Constance).................. 55 Michelle Ballantyne (South Scotland) (Con) ............................................................................................... 59 Monica Lennon (Central Scotland) (Lab) ................................................................................................... 63 Ross Greer (West Scotland) (Green) ......................................................................................................... 65 Alex Cole-Hamilton (Edinburgh Western) (LD) .......................................................................................... 68 Christina McKelvie (Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse) (SNP) ............................................................... 71 Jeremy Balfour (Lothian) (Con) .................................................................................................................. 73 Fulton MacGregor (Coatbridge and Chryston) (SNP) ................................................................................ 75 Kezia Dugdale (Lothian) (Lab) .................................................................................................................... 77 Sandra White (Glasgow Kelvin) (SNP) ....................................................................................................... 79 Oliver Mundell (Dumfriesshire) (Con) ......................................................................................................... 81 Bob Doris (Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn) (SNP) ................................................................................ 83 Joan McAlpine (South Scotland) (SNP) ..................................................................................................... 85 Ross Greer ................................................................................................................................................. 87 Pauline McNeill (Glasgow) (Lab) ................................................................................................................ 90 Jamie Greene (West Scotland) (Con) ........................................................................................................ 92 Angela Constance ...................................................................................................................................... 95 BUSINESS MOTION ........................................................................................................................................... 99 Motion moved—[Joe FitzPatrick]—and agreed to. DECISION TIME .............................................................................................................................................. 100 1 21 JUNE 2018 2 In relation to the other point that Gillian Martin Scottish Parliament made, I can tell her that we are conducting a full review of the business pledge, with the exception Thursday 21 June 2018 of one of the nine criteria, which is on the living wage, on which we are not changing our position. [The Presiding Officer opened the meeting at Every other aspect of the business pledge is being 11:40] looked at. I have been involved in a number of round-table discussions with businesses to General Question Time consider the various elements of the business pledge in order to ensure that it achieves the wider aims, including the aims that can be achieved Closing the Gender Pay Gap using the Government’s powers. Responsibility for 1. Gillian Martin (Aberdeenshire East) (SNP): procurement lies with my colleague Derek To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is Mackay. Those things are being taken forward. taking to close the gender pay gap. (S5O-02259) It is worth pointing out that, although Scotland’s The Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Jobs gender pay gap is far too high at 6.6 per cent, it and Fair Work (Keith Brown): The Scottish remains well below the UK’s level of 9.1 per cent. Government recognises that the gender pay gap is However, we intend to take further action to symptomatic of structural inequalities