FMQs: Recap as Humza Yousaf faces the Scottish Parliament for First Minister's Questions
Make sure you don’t miss a thing by following along here for expert analysis of another First Minister’s Questions with The Scotsman politics team, live from the Scottish Parliament.
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Key Events
- Conservatives blast Humza Yousaf after the South Uist ferry was cancelled for almost a whole month
- Labour hit out at claims bereaved widow was spied on by health board
- Humza Yousaf faces more challenges on NHS staffing
Fiona Hyslop, SNP MSP for Linlithgow, has raised the tragic case of a child in West Lothian who died at school earlier this week. Both she and Humza Yousaf paid their condolences to the child’s family and says lessons can be learned. Our education correspondent Calum Ross covered this story for us.
Humza Yousaf said there should be no further media intrusion into this.
Jim Fairlie, MSP for Perthshire South and Kinross-shire and himself a farmer, has raised the issue of bracken herbicide. This is something our rural affairs correspondent Katharine Hay has been looking at:
Roz McCall, Conservative MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, has been asking about adoption in Scotland. Ms McCall’s two daughters are both adopted, so she will have a vested interest in any policy area here.
Humza Yousaf said he will engage with the adoption barometer and with care-experienced people, and said he will write to Ms McCall so they can discuss the issue in more detail.
You can read more about Ms McCall and her family in this piece discussing endometriosis care in Fife:
Endometriosis sufferers demand full return of Kirkcaldy gynaecology ward
Women in Fife are calling for the old gynaecology ward at Victoria Hospital to be fully reinstated, claiming what is now on offer is “broken” and “not
Mark Ruskell, Green MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, is now raising the issue of greyhound racing in Scotland. He said many animal rights campaigners are in the public gallery to watch the exchange. There is now only one operational greyhound racing track left in Scotland - Thornton Stadium in Fife. I went along to see what happens at a race night last year, feel free to take a look at what happened:
FMQs has finished but Keith Brown, the SNP’s deputy leader, has called for a point of order. He wants Douglas Ross to make a personal statement to correct a “misleading” comment he made at last week’s FMQs. Last week the debate focused on the introduction of an LEZ in Glasgow city centre where Mr Ross claimed a food charity had been banned from the LEZ, however the charity was later given an exemption after it bought a new van. Take a look at what happened last week. Douglas Ross does not look best impressed with the point of order from Keith Brown, and there’s some jeers coming from the Conservative benches.
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