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The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

The member must be heard.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

No, no, minister. The member does not have to take interventions.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

I will have to cut the microphone if the member does not conclude.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

The member must bring his remarks to a close.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

The member must wind up.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

Mr Kerr—Mr Kerr!I remind Mr Kerr, who is an experienced parliamentarian, that he must speak through the chair. I also remind all members that they must use the full names of other members. The same thing has happened a number of times today, and I repeat that the full names of...

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

Again, I am going to—

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

Exactly. You have time in hand. I was saying to the member that you do not have time to take interventions, but you have time to wind up because you have additional time.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

The member is winding up.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

Mr Brown, please sit down for a moment.This issue has arisen with a number of members. I ask every member to refer to other members by their full name, please.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

I remind all members that they must speak through the chair.16:54

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

The member must be heard. There must not be interruptions.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

The member making the speech must be given the floor.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

Can the member wind up, please?

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

Could the member be heard, please? There must be no interruptions.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

The member is winding up.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

There should be no interruptions while the member has the floor.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

If members wish to make interventions, they know how to do so. Mr Kerr, could you press your button when you want to make an intervention? It helps with broadcasting.I call Mr Kerr.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

Members must keep to the time that they have been allowed, particularly if they have not taken interventions. Interruption. Could the members on the Conservative benches please allow the Presiding Officer to be heard? I call Daniel Johnson.16:22

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

Could the member wind up, please?

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Portfolio Question Time · Public Procurement (Small Businesses, Social Enterprises and Local Supply Chains)

That concludes portfolio question time.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Portfolio Question Time · Grant Schemes

Question 8 was not lodged.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Portfolio Question Time

The next portfolio is public service reform, Europe, external affairs and energy. If a member wishes to request a supplementary question, they should press their request-to-speak button during the relevant question. During the previous portfolio, I noticed that a number of mem...

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Portfolio Question Time · High Streets (Businesses)

Question 10 has been withdrawn.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Portfolio Question Time

We move to portfolio question time, and the first portfolio is Deputy First Minister responsibilities, finance and local government, parliamentary business and veterans. I remind members that questions 1 and 3 have been grouped together and that I will take any supplementaries...

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

I call Martyn Day to make his first speech.15:44

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

We move to the open debate. I remind members that there should be no interruptions during a first speech.I call Katie Hagmann to make a first speech.15:29

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

As the Presiding Officer has made clear, we will add on time when a member takes an intervention.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

I ask members who are trying to make an intervention to press their request-to-speak buttons. A number of members have not been doing that. If they do so, it helps with the broadcast.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

I remind colleagues that there should be no interventions or interruptions during a first speech. I call Kim Schmulian to speak to and move amendment S7M-00249.2 in her first speech.14:54

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

The next item of business is a debate on motion S7M-00249, in the name of Jenny Gilruth, on wealth taxation for public services. I invite members who wish to speak in the debate to press their request-to-speak buttons.14:40

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

National Health Service

The final speaker in the open debate is Lloyd Melville.16:01

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

National Health Service

I call Fulton MacGregor.15:55

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

National Health Service

We now have a first speech from Cara McKee.15:49

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

National Health Service

I remind members that interventions are not speeches and should be short.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

National Health Service

I call Stuart McMillan.15:43

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

National Health Service

I call Joe Long to make a first speech.15:30

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

National Health Service

We move to the open debate. I call David Linden, who is making his first speech in the Parliament.15:02

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

National Health Service

The final speaker in the open debate is Lloyd Melville.16:01

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

National Health Service

I call Fulton MacGregor.15:55

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

National Health Service

We now have a first speech from Cara McKee.15:49

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

National Health Service

I remind members that interventions are not speeches and should be short.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

National Health Service

I call Stuart McMillan.15:43

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

National Health Service

I call Joe Long to make a first speech.15:30

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

National Health Service

We move to the open debate. I call David Linden, who is making his first speech in the Parliament.15:02

Katy Clark (West Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber

On a point of order, Presiding Officer. I would have abstained.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Summer of Sport

I call Siobhian Brown to wind up the debate on behalf of the Scottish Government and to take us through to decision time.17:19

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Summer of Sport

I call Jamie Langan to make his first speech.17:12

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Summer of Sport

I call Jenny Young to make her first speech.17:08

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Summer of Sport

We move to closing speeches and I call Adam Harley, who is making his first speech.16:52

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Summer of Sport

I call Jack Middleton. You have 10—apologies; five—minutes.16:47

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Summer of Sport

I call Steven Bonnar to make a first speech.16:41

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Summer of Sport

I call Alyn Smith to make a first speech.16:36

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Summer of Sport

To make a first speech, I call Irshad Ahmed, who has five minutes.16:31

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Summer of Sport

I remind colleagues that there should be no interventions or interruptions on a first speech. I call Colm Merrick to make a first speech.16:24

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Summer of Sport

We move to the open debate. Members who wish to speak should press their request-to-speak button.16:19

Katy Clark (West Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber

On a point of order, Presiding Officer. I would have abstained.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Summer of Sport

I call Siobhian Brown to wind up the debate on behalf of the Scottish Government and to take us through to decision time.17:19

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Katy Clark) Lab Chamber

Summer of Sport

I call Jamie Langan to make his first speech.17:12

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Chamber

Meeting of the Parliament 10 June 2026 [Last updated 18:45]

10 Jun 2026 · S7 · Meeting of the Parliament

Item of business

Public Trust in Scottish Politics

Clark, Katy Lab West Scotland Watch on SPTV

The member must be heard.

In the same item of business

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Clare Adamson) SNP

Before we begin the next item of business, I would like to say that the proceedings against Peter Murrell remain active until he has been sentenced. The sub ...

Anas Sarwar (Glasgow) (Lab) Lab

The choice before us in this debate is simple. Do we believe in honesty, openness, transparency and the rule of law? Is this a Parliament that believes that ...

Ross Greer (West Scotland) (Green) Green

I ask this quite sincerely: does Mr Sarwar genuinely believe what he just said—that this is the greatest political scandal in the history of devolution—when ...

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Clare Adamson) SNP

I remind members that criminal cases remain active and that the sub judice rule is engaged.

Anas Sarwar Lab

I say gently to Mr Greer that that is a shocking case that relates to individual behaviour, but today we are talking about a systematic culture of cover-up a...

Patrick Harvie (Glasgow) (Green) Green

Made a request to intervene.

Anas Sarwar Lab

If I get the time back, I will happily take an intervention.

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Clare Adamson) SNP

You can, Mr Sarwar.

Patrick Harvie Green

I wonder whether Anas Sarwar applies the same principle—if people have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear—to our argument that, if there is to be an ...

Anas Sarwar Lab

I have sympathy for the argument that Patrick Harvie has made, and I have sympathy with the Green amendment. There should be greater transparency on party fi...

The Minister for Parliamentary Business and Veterans (Jamie Hepburn) SNP

In the interests of transparency, I place on the record that my wife is presently employed by the Scottish National Party and has been since April 2023.I beg...

Stephen Kerr (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con) Con

I assert that what the minister has said is outrageous. He has called into question the very idea of why we have parliamentary committees and parliamentary i...

Jamie Hepburn SNP

I am not convinced that that intervention was particularly worth hearing. We presumably all accept the objective fact that the issue in question is the forme...

Stephen Kerr Con

You should be in favour of an inquiry.

Jamie Hepburn SNP

If the member is suggesting that it is not the Scottish National Party that is the victim in this case, I do not know who he thinks the victim is.This picks ...

Michael Marra (North East Scotland) (Lab) Lab

Will the minister give way?

Alex Cole-Hamilton (Edinburgh North Western) (LD) LD

Will he give way?

Jamie Hepburn SNP

Not at the moment.I believe that the Parliament has a proud and good record of constructive committee work. It is not always easy or straightforward. It is w...

Michael Marra Lab

Will the minister give way?

Jamie Hepburn SNP

Can I check, Presiding Officer: if I give way, will I get the time back?

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Clare Adamson) SNP

Yes. The Presiding Officer has agreed that that should be the case for all debates if you take an intervention.

Michael Marra Lab

I appreciate the minister giving way. Would he not recognise that there is a question of public money paid in Short money to the SNP? There are questions of ...

Jamie Hepburn SNP

Any of those questions will be dealt with by the Electoral Commission. That issue has already been raised in Parliament. The question was asked of the First ...

Jackie Baillie (Dumbarton) (Lab) Lab

It was about HMRC.

Jamie Hepburn SNP

I think that the question was about Short money, Ms Baillie, and it would be a matter for the Electoral Commission.

Alex Cole-Hamilton LD

Will the minister give way?

Jamie Hepburn SNP

I will give way one more time, to Mr Cole-Hamilton.

Alex Cole-Hamilton LD

The minister suggests that it would be inappropriate for a committee of inquiry to investigate the issue, but we have the Standards, Procedures and Public Ap...

Jamie Hepburn SNP

Government ministers are, quite correctly, accountable for their Government ministerial responsibilities, and they will be held to account by the Parliament....

Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) Lab

Will the minister give way?