If you're just joining us here are the headlines from this week's FMQs.

• Both Russell Findlay and Anas Sarwar brought up on the latest delay and increase in costs of the MV Glen Rosa
• Findlay asked why is completion of the ferry taking so long and why had no SNP minister resigned over the scandal
• The Scottish Tory leader also asked what the final cost to the taxpayer would be
• The first minister defended his government's record on ferries pointing out the spend on ferries had increased five fold since 2007
• "So much for steadying the ship" quipped Anas Sarwar picking up on the same issue
• The Scottish Labour leader highlighted £500m spent by CalMac on ferry repairs
• Again the FM defended his position by pointing out the impact of the weather on cancellations
• Alex Cole-Hamilton went on a different tack and focused on the "crisis in social care"
• The FM agreed with much that the Scottish Lib Dem leader had said and instead took fire at Sir Keir Starmer's immigration announcement which he said would be "catastrophic" for the care sector in Scotland

That's all from the live page team this lunchtime. Calum Watson was the editor. Megan Bonar and Craig Hutchison were the writers.

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Glasgow Pride has banned political parties from this year's festival over a perceived lack of action in response to the recent Supreme Court gender ruling.

Organisers said politicians had failed to speak out or provide clarity after the UK's highest court said a woman was defined by biological sex under equality law.

Parties will not be allowed to register for a space or host a stall at the annual LGBT+ march on 19 July, with politicians banned from making speeches.

Politicians will however be allowed to attend in an individual capacity.

It follows announcements earlier this week by Pride groups in Birmingham, Brighton, London and Manchester in a gesture of solidarity with the transgender community.

Read more here.

Patrick Harvie asks the first minister to acknowledge that the “political landscape has betrayed the trust of the LGBTQ community”, and how will he restore that trust.

It comes after Glasgow Pride banned political parties from this year’s event over a perceived failure to respond and provide clarity following the Supreme Court gender ruling.

The Scottish Greens co-leader adds that some Scottish government employees are “living in fear” they will be made subject to segregation policies.

Swinney says he recognises and sympathies with the LGBTQ community.

“Let me make it clear that my government are absolutely resolute in our support for the LGBTQI+ community and that we will take actions that will be aimed at protecting the rights of all,” he adds.

Murdo Fraser says yesterday we learned that the principal of Perth College UHI had stepped down with immediate effect.

Dr Margaret Cook, who held the role for eight years, faced calls to resign following "extreme" financial challenges at the institution.

The Tory MSP says this followed management concerns at the college and the collapse of the Ayr Service Training and funding challenges caused by the SNP leaving the college with a £2m deficit.

He asks what action the government will take to provide staff and students reassurance that their futures are secure.

The first minister thanks Dr Margaret Cook for her services and he points out Perth College is an autonomous self-governing institution.

He says the government is substantially supporting the college sector.

Sandesh Gulhane MSP asks what the government is doing to improve the NHS 24 service.

The Tory MSP, who is also a GP, says reports show that 1 in 5 calls to the service go unanswered.

He highlights the case of one person who waited on the phone for four hours.

The first minister apologies to anyone who has experienced this, but adds NHS 24’s budget has been increased and a record number of call handlers are employed by the service.

“Stop talking about money, and start talking about outcomes,” Gulhane responds.

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Sir Keir Starmer has promised the UK government's new immigration measures will mean net migration falls "significantly" over the next four years.

The prime minister unveiled plans to restrict recruitment of care workers from overseas, tighten access to skilled worker visas and raise the costs to employers in an effort to curb near record net migration.

He did not set a precise target, but the Home Office estimated the policies could lead to a 100,000 drop in immigration per year by 2029 - based on analysis of just eight of the core policies where "a quantitative assessment" could be made.

Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch said: "This is nowhere near the scale of the change we need to see."

• Read more here
• Labour's immigration plans at a glance
• Chris Mason: Why Labour aims to buck a 25-year trend of rising legal migration

Swinney keen to take aim at Starmerpublished at 12:45 British Summer Time 15 May

12:45 BST 15 May

Philip Sim
BBC Scotland political correspondent

It feels like a very long time since John Swinney was welcoming Sir Keir Starmer into office as prime minister, and praising an improvement in intergovernmental relations.

A big part of this is the fact that the SNP and Labour are increasingly going head to head in a push for votes.

But it seems Mr Swinney has no shortage of bones to pick with Sir Keir; he was spoiled for choice in attack lines today.

He may not have been able to throw them directly back at Anas Sarwar, but he managed to pounce on Alex-Cole Hamilton’s question about care services to make a point about immigration policy.

And immediately afterwards he swung cheerfully for the fences after one of his backbenchers pitched a softball about UK government benefit cuts.

There was even an opportunity to have a go at UK ministers over the trade deal with the US - the sort of international territory where there is usually more accord between the administrations - with Mr Swinney voicing “enormous disappointment” with a process he found “deeply unsatisfactory”.

It’s another measure of how momentum has shifted in Scottish politics since last year’s general election landslide. Mr Swinney is being presented with plenty of opportunities to go on the offensive in his bid to keep the SNP on the front foot.

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Care staff are to go on strike in a pay dispute later this month, in the first national care walkout in more than a decade.

Enable Scotland staff will take action across five days in different regions, beginning on 29 May in East Renfrewshire and continuing in Aberdeenshire, Moray, Ayrshire, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

The strikes will conclude with a march and rally at the Scottish Parliament on 12 June.

The Unison union said the move was in response to "years of broken promises and delays" by the Scottish government regarding reform and funding of social care.

Read more here.

The Scottish Lib Dems leader tells the chamber on any given night 2,000 Scots are stuck in hospital despite being well enough to be discharged, because there is no care home place for them or no care package available.

Cole-Hamilton asks the first minister to "commit with urgency to building new care homes".

The first minister agrees with much the Scottish Lib Dem leader has said.

Delayed discharges have fallen but are still much to high adds Swinney.

The prime minister's message on Monday about possible restrictions on work visas would be "catastrophic" for the care sector, he said.

"I've never heard anything so damaging for the delivery of care in our communities." he adds.

It's now the turn of Alex Cole-Hamilton who highlights the "crisis in social care in Scotland".

The Scottish Lib Dem leader says the number of care homes in the Highlands fell by a fifth in the last 10 years.

He raises the case of Duncan who came from Acharacle in the West Highlands but the nearest available home was in Fort Augustus.

The travel time for his wife meant time with her dying husband was lost.

The first minister says this is concerning and adds he wants people to have local care.

Sarwar focuses on human impact of ferries delaypublished at 12:35 British Summer Time 15 May

12:35 BST 15 May

Philip Sim
BBC Scotland political correspondent

Ferries was clearly going to be the topic of the week for holding the government to account, but Anas Sarwar took a different tack to Russell Findlay.

Where his Tory counterpart focused on the cost of delays in pounds and pence, the Labour leader sought to bring up the human impact on communities on the Isle of Arran.

The similarity is that John Swinney was boxed into factual, defensive answers about the standards of service, rather than being able to launch any kind of political counter-attack.

It’s a tactic as old as parliamentary question time itself - bring up case studies of individual citizens which the first minister has to respond to, rather than opening up a broader political rammy.

And at least in the immediacy, it prevented Mr Swinney from having an opportunity to attack the actions of the Labour UK government - something he is clearly itching to do, but will likely now have to wait for a helpful backbencher to tee it up.

Sarwar says the ferry fiasco is "damaging lives and livelihoods" in communities like on the Isle of Arran where people face a three hour trip for hospital appointments.

He claims to exclusively reveal that CalMac has spent an additional £500m on repairs.

Sarwar said “This is now a £1bn SNP ferry fiasco made by the SNP, paid for by working Scots," he adds "the SNP cant be trusted with the public’s money."

Swinney says the government will continue to invest in the ferry network in order to make it more reliable and affordable for islanders.

He says: "This government at all times will invest in our ferry network, we will invest in our island communities and we will apply the stringent control to public finances that I’ve seen this government re-elected on several times before."

The reasons for the problems with the two ferries are hotly-contested but here are some of the explanations that have been put forward:

A muddled specification - Both former owner Jim McColl and a government appointed expert Luke Van Beek have suggested the contracts were put out to tender too early, before the specification was fully developed and tested, leading to design problems for the shipyard. CMAL denies this.

'Rigged' procurement - Some have suggested pressure was placed on CMAL to award the challenging contract to Ferguson's for political reasons. A BBC documentary previously presented evidence the procurement process may have been rigged. CMAL denies this and the government denies interference.

Build strategy - The shipyard initially tried to construct both ships almost simultaneously. Some Ferguson workers believe this was never feasible due to space constraints at the yard.

Chasing steel - CMAL has suggested McColl's managers rushed ahead with steel construction without a completed design in order to trigger milestone payments - a practice known as "chasing steel". McColl denies this and says design issues were due to late decision-making and repeated change requests by CMAL.

Premature launch of Glen Sannox - The first ship was launched in 2017 in a very unfinished state, with plywood funnels, painted on windows and much fitting out work still to do. Work can be carried out more efficiently in the sheds or slipway. The former owners say they had to launch early in order to allow work to progress on Glen Rosa.

LNG engines - the liquefied natural gas engine technology was well established but unfamiliar to UK-based shipyards and regulators. Ferguson's struggled to fit the extra equipment and pipework into the cramped machinery spaces available on the ships. Much of the LNG work requires specialist contractors.

Management failures - While there is broad agreement the Ferguson workforce are not to blame for the problems, various management teams have faced criticism. The design contractors were also changed after nationalisation and the changeover process was disruptive.

Covid disruption - Less than a year after nationalisation work was disrupted by the pandemic. It came at a crucial time as new design partners, based in Romania, were trying to get to grips with the project.

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The first minister responds by stating the of the recorded cancellations on Scotland's ferry services, less than 5% were caused by technical issues.

Swinney said the weather related problems were the cause of the majority of cancellations.

"Despite these issues the network performs very strongly for island communities," Swinney adds.

Sarwar responds: “The first minister is basically saying that island communities should be angry with the weather rather than the Scottish government."

Anas Sarwar also asks the first minister about the ferry crisis.

The Scottish Labour leader says that as well as delayed delivery dates and rising costs, the cancellations on CalMac's "ageing fleet" is also causing issues for island communities.

He adds that figures show cancellations on CalMac services have risen by 531%.

“So much for steadying the ship," Sarwar says.

The first minister is clearly responsible in word only hits back Findlay.

The last thing islanders want to see is more visits from SNP ministers, they want to see ferries he adds.

"The ferry saga symbolises so much that is wrong with the SNP," he argues.

The first minister says the ferry budget in 2007 was £90m and in the current financial year it was five times that budget.

This leads to some uproar in the chamber and the presiding officer intervenes.

Swinney defends the Scottish government's record on ferries, saying it is now delivering record investment in new vessels.

The FM is not willing or is perhaps unable to say how much this will end up costing taxpayers says Findlay.

"It was John Swinney who personally signed of what was a corrupt CalMac procurement process," adds the Scottish Tory leader.

He says no-one in the SNP has ever taken responsibility and asks "so who is responsible?"

The first minister answers: "I unreservedly accept my responsibility for everything that happens in the name of my government."

Analysis: The never-ending ferries sagapublished at 12:14 British Summer Time 15 May

12:14 BST 15 May

Philip Sim
BBC Scotland political correspondent

The saga of the Glen Sannox and the Glen Rosa is starting to feel like an endless one in Holyrood as well as at the Ferguson shipyard.

Looking back at this week in 2022, Douglas Ross was asking Nicola Sturgeon about ferries for the fifth time in six weeks.

And here we are with two different party leaders going over very much the same ground, about delivery dates slipping and spiralling costs.

Russell Findlay is of course outraged about this latest delay, but in terms of political opportunism he is no doubt delighted that it is now set to drag out past next year’s Holyrood election.

It plays into his narrative of taxpayers getting a raw deal under the SNP, and it is helpful to him that John Swinney is tied to the process too given his previous roles in government.

Mr Swinney’s tenure has been all about steadying the ship. He came into office promising to hold his hands up to the challenges facing his party and government, and that was his approach today.

He was clear he would take responsibility for delivery under his administration, and that these continued delays are unacceptable.

The first minister ultimately stuck to statistics and detail about things like road equivalent tariffs, rather than trying to fight back with fiery rhetoric - as he may well have been tempted to, amid extensive heckling from the Tory benches.

Findlay says the BBC is reporting the two ferries will now cost £460m and counting.

"What will the final cost be to taxpayers?"

The first minister explains the total forecast to complete the Glen Rosa is now £172.5m with an additoinal risk contingency of £12.5m.

Swinney reiterates the cost and delay in delivery are "unacceptable".

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The nationalised Ferguson shipyard confirmed on Tuesday that MV Glen Rosa, the second of two dual fuel CalMac ferries, would not be delivered until the second quarter of 2026 and costs would rise by up to £35m.

Glen Rosa and its sister vessel Glen Sannox were meant to come into service in 2018 and cost £97m for both ships. The total bill is now more than 4.5 times that figure.

The contracts were awarded just a year after Ferguson's went bust shortly before the 2014 independence referendum and was rescued by Jim McColl, a successful businessman who has served as an economic adviser to both Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon.

Initially seen as a lifeline for the last surviving commercial shipyard on the Clyde, the ships turned into a curse, with design challenges, delays and ever spiralling costs.

McColl blamed the government-owned ferries firm CMAL for the problems, claiming the specification was muddled, leading to frequent change requests and interference.

CMAL denied this, saying the problem was poor management and a failure to grasp the complexity of the task. The ships are the first LNG ferries ever built by a UK shipyard.

A stalemate over claims for extra costs saw the yard go bust again in 2019, and subsequently nationalised - but difficulties building the ships have continued.

Glen Sannox finally entered service in January, but the total cost of the two ships is now in excess of £460m when you include money paid out prior to nationalisation and written-off government loans.