Meeting of the Parliament 18 December 2025
What is the First Minister’s response to the immediate resignation of three leading environmental members of the agriculture reform implementation oversight board and policy development group, who cite systemic failures of process, a lack of transparency and repeated disregard for evidence in the Scottish Government’s approach to agriculture reform? How can the First Minister support a reform process that is so lacking in coherence, clarity and honesty that experts now say that they no longer have any confidence in the Government’s policy-making machine? Does John Swinney accept that that raises serious concerns that his Scottish National Party Government is incapable of delivering the food security, climate or nature outcomes that Scotland desperately deserves?