Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 09 October 2025
09 Oct 2025 · S6 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Breast Cancer Now Awareness Day 2025 and Wear It Pink Initiative
I appreciate that the minister is about to move on to say what is happening. I want to remember on record that one of the first things that Christina did after her diagnosis was to have the age protocols for screening changed. I was a couple of months older than Christina—she never let me forget it—but, because of the cycle of when people were called to be tested, I had my first breast cancer screening test three years before she did. She changed that system to ensure that every woman would have that screening in her 50th year.
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The Deputy Presiding Officer (Annabelle Ewing)
SNP
The next item of business is a members’ business debate on motion S6M-18752, in the name of Clare Adamson, on Breast Cancer Now awareness day 2025 and wear i...
Clare Adamson (Motherwell and Wishaw) (SNP)
SNP
I am delighted to speak in support of the motion recognising Breast Cancer Now awareness day 2025, which takes place on 24 October, and I thank all those mem...
The Deputy Presiding Officer
SNP
Thank you, Ms Adamson. We move to the open debate. 12:54
Marie McNair (Clydebank and Milngavie) (SNP)
SNP
I congratulate Clare Adamson MSP on securing this important debate and on all the work that she has done in Parliament to raise awareness of breast cancer an...
Stephen Kerr (Central Scotland) (Con)
Con
I associate myself with everything that Clare Adamson says in her motion and said in her excellent speech. I recognise Breast Cancer Now awareness day 2025 a...
Jackie Baillie (Dumbarton) (Lab)
Lab
I congratulate Clare Adamson on securing this important debate and commend her for her thoughtful contribution. Like other colleagues, I associate myself wit...
The Minister for Public Health and Women’s Health (Jenni Minto)
SNP
I, too, express my sincere thanks to Clare Adamson for bringing this important motion to the chamber for debate and to my fellow MSPs, who have all provided ...
Keith Brown (Clackmannanshire and Dunblane) (SNP)
SNP
I apologise if I am pre-empting the minister’s next remark. I commend the Scottish Government for approving the drug Enhertu, which is not approved elsewhere...
Jenni Minto
SNP
I thank Keith Brown for that intervention and I hope that I will be able to get a ticket to that event. As I was saying, the motion has given us the opportu...
Clare Adamson
SNP
I appreciate that the minister is about to move on to say what is happening. I want to remember on record that one of the first things that Christina did aft...
Jenni Minto
SNP
Clare Adamson raises an incredibly important point about Christina McKelvie’s focus on doing the right thing. I thank her for mentioning it. We know that on...
The Deputy Presiding Officer
SNP
That concludes the debate. 13:17 Meeting suspended. 14:00 On resuming—