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Meeting of the Parliament MEETING OF THE PARLIAMENT Thursday 18 December 2014 Session 4 © Parliamentary copyright. Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body Information on the Scottish Parliament’s copyright policy can be found on the website - www.scottish.parliament.uk or by contacting Public Information on 0131 348 5000 Thursday 18 December 2014 CONTENTS Col. GENERAL QUESTION TIME .................................................................................................................................. 1 Fuel Poverty Eradication Target ................................................................................................................... 1 National Health Service Recruitment (Consultants) ..................................................................................... 2 Food Banks (Trends in Use) ......................................................................................................................... 3 NHS Lanarkshire (Out-of-hours Service) ..................................................................................................... 4 Road Improvements (North Ayrshire) ........................................................................................................... 5 Cycling Initiatives .......................................................................................................................................... 6 A801 River Avon Gorge Crossing ................................................................................................................ 7 Local Government Services ......................................................................................................................... 8 Early Learning and Childcare (West Glasgow) ............................................................................................ 8 FIRST MINISTER’S QUESTION TIME ................................................................................................................... 10 Engagements .............................................................................................................................................. 10 Secretary of State for Scotland (Meetings) ................................................................................................ 14 Cabinet (Meetings) ..................................................................................................................................... 17 Rendition Flights (Judicial Inquiry).............................................................................................................. 18 Kinloss Rescue Co-ordination Centre (Closure) ........................................................................................ 19 Lima Climate Change Agreement .............................................................................................................. 20 SCOTLAND’S OUTSTANDING YEAR OF SPORT ................................................................................................... 23 Motion debated—[Roderick Campbell]. Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) ............................................................................................... 23 Liz Smith (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con) .................................................................................................... 25 Kenny MacAskill (Edinburgh Eastern) (SNP) ............................................................................................. 27 The Minister for Sport, Health Improvement and Mental Health (Jamie Hepburn) .................................... 29 JUNIOR MINISTER ............................................................................................................................................ 33 Motion moved—[First Minister]—and agreed to. The First Minister (Nicola Sturgeon) ........................................................................................................... 33 James Kelly (Rutherglen) (Lab) .................................................................................................................. 34 Jackson Carlaw (West Scotland) (Con) ..................................................................................................... 35 Jean Urquhart (Highlands and Islands) (Ind) ............................................................................................. 36 The First Minister ........................................................................................................................................ 36 WELFARE REFORM AND THE SMITH COMMISSION .............................................................................................. 38 Motion moved—[Michael McMahon]. Michael McMahon (Uddingston and Bellshill) (Lab) ................................................................................... 38 The Minister for Housing and Welfare (Margaret Burgess) ........................................................................ 43 Ken Macintosh (Eastwood) (Lab) ............................................................................................................... 46 Annabel Goldie (West Scotland) (Con) ...................................................................................................... 49 Kevin Stewart (Aberdeen Central) (SNP) ................................................................................................... 51 Cara Hilton (Dunfermline) (Lab) ................................................................................................................. 53 Christina McKelvie (Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse) (SNP) ............................................................... 56 Siobhan McMahon (Central Scotland) (Lab) .............................................................................................. 59 Linda Fabiani (East Kilbride) (SNP)............................................................................................................ 61 Anne McTaggart (Glasgow) (Lab) .............................................................................................................. 63 Joan McAlpine (South Scotland) (SNP) ..................................................................................................... 65 Alex Johnstone (North East Scotland) (Con) ............................................................................................. 67 Dr Richard Simpson (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab) .................................................................................... 69 Margaret Burgess ....................................................................................................................................... 72 Clare Adamson (Central Scotland) (SNP) .................................................................................................. 75 DECISION TIME ................................................................................................................................................ 79 1 18 DECEMBER 2014 2 National Health Service Recruitment Scottish Parliament (Consultants) Thursday 18 December 2014 2. Joan McAlpine (South Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Government whether the recruitment of consultants in Scotland could be [The Deputy Presiding Officer opened the affected by any move to privatise NHS services in meeting at 11:40] England. (S4O-03842) General Question Time The Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Sport (Shona Robison): NHS Scotland The Deputy Presiding Officer (Elaine Smith): offers consultant staff the opportunity to work in a Good morning. The first item of business this world-class healthcare system in modern and well- morning is general question time. As ever, in order equipped hospitals and on competitive terms and to bring in as many members as possible, I ask for conditions that offer a good work-life balance. We short, succinct questions and answers to match. will continue to look at how we can attract the best talent to NHS Scotland, and we will monitor the Fuel Poverty Eradication Target situation to see whether the direction of travel in England is having any impact on our ability to 1. Murdo Fraser (Mid Scotland and Fife) recruit to vacant posts. (Con): To ask the Scottish Government whether it is on track to meet its fuel poverty eradication Joan McAlpine: The cabinet secretary may be target. (S4O-03841) aware that Dumfries and Galloway has one of the highest levels—if not the highest level—of The Minister for Housing and Welfare consultant vacancies in Scotland. Although many (Margaret Burgess): The Government remains factors feed into that, I was alarmed to be told committed to eradicating fuel poverty. recently, by health board contacts, that the Unfortunately, we have the powers to influence increase in the amount of private work that only one of the levers to tackle fuel poverty—the consultants in England can undertake is affecting energy efficiency of housing. As the most recent Dumfries and Galloway NHS Board’s ability to Scottish house condition survey results show, our recruit. Does the cabinet secretary agree that that investment to improve domestic energy efficiency illustrates clearly that changes to the NHS in has helped to mitigate the 7 per cent rise in fuel England can have a detrimental effect on our prices that we have seen in the past year. independent NHS here in Scotland? We continue to focus on increasing the energy Shona Robison: The board has advised us that efficiency of homes in Scotland, and last week I there may be a recent case whereby a consultant urged the United Kingdom Government to use its resigned
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