Ms Dugdale says for 10 years the SNP have said the council tax is unfair so why isn't the government scrapping it.

Ms Sturgeon says for 10 years Labour hav been asking the government to raise council tax and now they freeze it.

"Labour does not know what it is doing," she says. 

Ms Dugdale says the reality is that the first minister has cut £1.5bn from local government over the past 10 years.

The Labour leader says nothing has been done to improve schools.

She says this SNP government has been in power for 10 years and asks when the first minister is going to start governing.

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Ms Sturgeon says Labour in Scotland went from first to second then third place in the country.

The first minister says Labour led local authorities are refusing to raise extra money for education by freezing the council tax.

"Ms Dugdale doesn't want to talk about that," she says. 

Ms Dugdale says the SNP has failed for 10 years in government and personal attacks are beneath the first minister.

The Labour leader says "things are going backwards" and now John Swinney faces the consequences of his own actions because he has "dropped the ball".

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Ms Sturgeon says Ms Dugdale has stood in the chamber week after week saying education funding it going down.

"It is scaremongering from the Scottish Labour leader," she says.

Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale says it has been 10 months since the election and parents and teachers are still waiting for the government's plans on schools.

Ms Dugdale says "education is defining this government as slow and distracted."

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Ms Sturgeon says the Education Bill will deliver the proposals from the governance review.

The first minister says the government is giving £120m directly to headteachers and schools and this is the opposite of centralising budgets.

Ms Davidson says the first minister is "kicking the can down the road".

The Scottish Conservative Leader says the first minister is putting independence on the front foot ahead of children's education.

Ms sturgeon says Ms Davidson keeps "shooting herself in the foot" because she keeps bringing up independence when the first minister wants to talk about education.

The first minister says the government will continue to take this forward by listening to others. 

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Ms Davidson says asks who does the first minister "think she's kidding". 

Ms Sturgeon says "it would make no sense to have a review of governance and not take time to consider the submissions."

The first minister says "if this is so important to the opposition it is time they get behind proposals rather than moaning."

Ms Davidson says: "There we go, education on the slow train."

The Tory Leader says organisations have lost their patience with the process and asks if the government has made up its mind, but just won't say it. 

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Ms Sturgeon says "no that it not the case" and that it is right to take time to consider the responses and the way forward.

The fist minister says, as the government does that, other strands of improving attainment are underway.

In February, the Scottish government revealed that most of the country's schools will be handed money from the attainment fund.

Ministers are giving head teachers across the country direct access to the £120m.

The money is being divided according to how many children in primary classes and the first three years of secondary school are entitled to free meals.

The list reveals that 2,513 primary, secondary and special schools will benefit from the new scheme.

The money is in addition to the funding schools receive from their local council.

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Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson says this week the education secretary announced a delay in reform plans due to there being 1000 submissions.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says the government has had the consultation on governance reform and it is "right and proper to take time to consider the submissions."

Ms Sturgeon says she has made clear on many occasions the priority to close the attainment gap.

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We will now bring you extensive coverage of first minister's questions.

Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing has asked for reassurances repeatedly for a guarantee that the UK government will not treat Scottish fishing as expendable, but has received none.

SNP MSP Stewart Stevenson asks what the impact would be on the fishing industry of the UK Government considering it a medium priority in its negotiations on leaving the EU, as suggested in a recently-leaked memo.  

SNP MSP Gail Ross asks how the government works with rural community councils to develop community empowerment, devolve powers locally and help reform local government.  

Energy Minister Paul Whellhouse says PACE has focused significant efforts on the North East and he also highlights the Energy Jobs Taskforce.

Scotland's Energy Jobs Taskforce is a partnership of industry, public sector and trade union representatives which formed early 2015 to help tackle the immediate challenges facing the energy sector.

In response to Gillian Martin's follow up questions, Mr Wheelhouse says it is deeply disturbing to hear reports that those formerly from the oil and gas industry are being discriminated against.

SNP MSP Gillian Martin asks what the government is doing to assist people in the oil and gas industry who are facing redundancy.  

Business Minister Paul Wheelhouse says he urges banks to see branch closures as a last resort.

Mr Gray says Prestonpans recently lost its last bank, an RBS branch and Tranent is down to one bank as TSB closes a branch.

The Labour MSP calls on Mr Wheelhouse to press on the banks that they benefited from a great deal of public money and the public deserve better in return.

Mr Wheelhouse says he will work with the UK government and banks to try to protect branches.

Labour MSP Iain Gray asks what recent discussions it has had with retail banks regarding branch networks.