Meeting of the Parliament Tuesday 14 June 2016 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 Tuesday 14 June 2016 CONTENTS Col. TIME FOR REFLECTION ....................................................................................................................................... 1 ONE MINUTE’S SILENCE ..................................................................................................................................... 3 TOPICAL QUESTION TIME ................................................................................................................................... 4 Hate Crimes (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex People).................................................. 4 Scottish Recording Centre .......................................................................................................................... 10 GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY 2014 ............................................................................................................... 13 Statement—[Roseanna Cunningham]. The Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform (Roseanna Cunningham) ... 13 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES .......................................................................................................................... 25 Motion moved—[Shirley-Anne Somerville]. Amendment moved—[Liz Smith]. Amendment moved—[Iain Gray]. The Minister for Further Education, Higher Education and Science (Shirley-Anne Somerville) ................ 25 Liz Smith (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con) .................................................................................................... 30 Iain Gray (East Lothian) (Lab) .................................................................................................................... 33 Jenny Gilruth (Mid Fife and Glenrothes) (SNP) .......................................................................................... 36 Jamie Greene (West Scotland) (Con) ........................................................................................................ 38 George Adam (Paisley) (SNP) ................................................................................................................... 40 James Kelly (Glasgow) (Lab) ..................................................................................................................... 42 Gillian Martin (Aberdeenshire East) (SNP) ................................................................................................. 43 Alexander Stewart (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con) ...................................................................................... 46 Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) .............................................................................................. 48 Colin Beattie (Midlothian North and Musselburgh) (SNP) .......................................................................... 49 Ross Greer (West Scotland) (Green) ......................................................................................................... 51 Rachael Hamilton (South Scotland) (Con) ................................................................................................. 54 Tom Arthur (Renfrewshire South) (SNP) .................................................................................................... 56 James Dornan (Glasgow Cathcart) (SNP) ................................................................................................. 59 Monica Lennon (Central Scotland) (Lab) ................................................................................................... 61 Ross Thomson (North East Scotland) (Con) .............................................................................................. 63 The Minister for Employability and Training (Jamie Hepburn) ................................................................... 66 DECISION TIME ................................................................................................................................................ 70 ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND (PRESTONPANS BRANCH) ..................................................................................... 71 Motion debated—[Iain Gray]. Iain Gray (East Lothian) (Lab) .................................................................................................................... 71 Bruce Crawford (Stirling) (SNP) ................................................................................................................. 73 Rachael Hamilton (South Scotland) (Con) ................................................................................................. 74 Jackie Baillie (Dumbarton) (Lab) ................................................................................................................ 76 Bob Doris (Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn) (SNP) ................................................................................ 77 Rhoda Grant (Highlands and Islands) (Lab) ............................................................................................... 79 Neil Findlay (Lothian) (Lab) ........................................................................................................................ 80 The Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy (Paul Wheelhouse) ..................................................... 82 1 14 JUNE 2016 2 our democracy can grow ever richer in the service of our Scottish Parliament great nation. Tuesday 14 June 2016 [The Presiding Officer opened the meeting at 14:00] Time for Reflection The Presiding Officer (Ken Macintosh): The first item of business this afternoon is time for reflection. Our time for reflection leader today is Bishop John Keenan from Paisley. The Right Rev John Keenan (Bishop of Paisley): Every day the church celebrates holy mass, and the gospel reading for today’s mass, which Pope Francis and parishes all over the world have read, is this: “Jesus said, ‘You have learnt: You must love your neighbour and hate your enemy. But I say love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you; in this way you will be sons of your Father in heaven, for he causes his sun to rise on bad men as well as good, and his rain to fall on honest and dishonest men alike. For if you save your greetings for your brothers, are you doing anything exceptional? You must therefore be perfect just as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Here, Jesus gives us a new idea about being perfect, or about how to become the politician of the year in his book, if you like. Even if our politics must be founded on loyalty to our party, our integrity should go further and be rooted in loving service to the whole Parliament above and beyond partisan lines. The kind of loving service that the gospel speaks about is not easy, but its values are already written into the very furniture of the chamber. We could have followed Westminster and its adversarial layout with benches confronting each other. Instead, we opted for an opened-out circle, pointing into a centre of consensus and reaching out, beyond itself, to include everyone. That, friends, should also be the landscape of the politician’s soul. The good member of the Scottish Parliament knows that he has opponents, but he hopes to be no one’s enemy. Even if she has to face what, from time to time, has hallmarks of hatred from sections of society, she does not wallow in persecution complexes. For as long as he is in power, he does not govern in a way that prefers only his own supporters but does so with a heart that serves the whole people, so that we all suffer rainy days together and enjoy the sunshine equally and to the full. We pray, dear friends, for business today. God our Heavenly Father, we thank you for our elected representatives here in this place and we pray that, as each day begins, they come ready to greet all their peers so that 3 14 JUNE 2016 4 One Minute’s Silence Topical Question Time 14:03 14:05 The Presiding Officer (Ken Macintosh): Hate Crimes (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Before we move to this afternoon’s business, I am Transgender and Intersex People) conscious that this is the first meeting of Parliament since the horrific shooting in Orlando in 1. Claire Baker (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab): the early hours of Sunday morning. I am sure that To ask the Scottish Government what action it is Parliament will want to know that I have written on taking to tackle hate crimes against LGBTI people. your behalf to the President of the Florida Senate, (S5T-00022) to the Speaker of the Florida House of The First Minister (Nicola Sturgeon): Representatives in Florida, and to the principal Presiding Officer, as you have done, I will first officer in the American consulate here in extend the thoughts and sympathies of the people Edinburgh to express our condolences following this cowardly shooting. I have also expressed our of Scotland to the families and friends of all those solidarity with the people of Florida, and with whose lives were so cruelly and tragically taken from them in Orlando in the early hours of Sunday members of the LGBTI community in Florida and morning. We also send our very best wishes to beyond. those who sustained injuries in the attack. I invite all members to join me in offering a The attack on the Pulse nightclub was, as the minute’s silence to pay our respects to the people of America.