Nicola Sturgeon says inflation is rising and that the pay gap is not sustainable across the public sector.

Ms Sturgeon says we do listen to what public sector workers are saying.

The audience member adds that nurses are now contemplating strikes and that no nurse wants that.

She asks the first minister to come into a hospital on any working day to witness how difficult it is.

Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale says Nicola Sturgeon heard the nurse say she had to go to a foodbank and adds that the first minister voted against a pay rise for nurses.

The first minister says that is not true and says a newly started nurse gets more here than in England.

Ms Dugdale says the nurse can't pay her food bill.

Ms Sturgeon responds by saying the government listens to the NHS pay review body.

Mr Coburn enters the debate: "Let them eat cake Nicola, let them eat cake."

Sarah Smith brings in the nurse again from the audience:

She says: "They don't seem to be listening.

Nicola Sturgeon says Ruth Davidson "talks a lot of nonsense about Scotland being the highest taxed part of the UK".

Ms Sturgeon says you get free prescriptions and personal care in Scotland.

Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson says people on low incomes should not have that money taken away in tax which is why the threshold has been raised.

Ms Davidson says there needs to be an equitable tax system.

She says there are now divergent taxes in Scotland with a "sign at Gretna saying higher taxes here".

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says the Scottish government supports a 50p top rate of tax.

Ms Sturgeon says she does not believe the basic rate should be increased and that a "massive tax cut" should not be handed to the higher earners.

The fist minister says the Westminster government has the "wrong priorities".

Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale says income tax should be increased.

Ms Dugdale explains: "We are now here in Scotland in a position to do things differently from the Tories."

She says her party's manifesto launching tomorrow will detail 1p on the basic rate and 50p on the top rate of tax.

Ms Dugdale says it is right to "ask the richest people in society to pay their share".

Willie Rennie says we should put 1p on the basic rate of income tax.

He adds that this money should be put into the Scottish education system which was once world renowned, but is now just "average."

The Scottish Lib Dem leader says that there also needs to be investment into mental health services.

UKIP's David Coburn says his party would extend free tuition to England as well.

Mr Coburn says EU students at Scottish university is depriving Scots from places and he says that is wrong.

The UKIP MEP says people are coming out of school who are not properly educated, which he says is down to Nicola Sturgeon who has made "mincemeat of education".

Scottish Greens co-convener Patrick Harvie says the Scottish government are too focused on performance figures rather than the attainment gap.

Mr Harvie says this is why the Scottish Greens pushed for more money for local authorities.

The Scottish Greens co-convener says that the Scottish government are trying to mitigate against cuts from the Westminster government and that it is impossible to cover all the cuts.

BBC Scotland Editor Sarah Smith asks for contributions from the audience.

Free tuition is raised by an audience member and another says that accommodation costs is another struggle for students and that they are having to rely on the "bank of mum and dad".

Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie asks why it has taken so long for Nicola Sturgeon to act on the attainment gap.

Mr Rennie says Ms Sturgeon is so distracted by her obsession with independence she is letting education down.

The first minister says the responsibility for education is hers and her government.

Ms Sturgeon says more is being invested directly to head teachers.

She insists money is increasing to schools by £120m.

Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson says there are a lot of things we have to do differently in schools and that there must be honesty around what is not working.

Ms Davidson says the Scottish government's solution to poor results in schools is to take those results out of the performance statistics.

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Pupils in Scotland are doing less well in maths, according to the latest Scottish government figures.

Between 2013 and 2015, the proportion of P4 and S2 students performing "well or very well" fell.

Pupils from better off areas recorded better results than those from the most deprived communities.

The statistics feature in the latest Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy (SSLN), external which is an annual sample monitoring national performance of school children at P4, P7 and S2 in literacy and numeracy.

Read more here.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says the Scottish government has been clear that it wants to close the attainment gap.

Ms Sturgeon says that the Scottish government will also protect free school meals, unlike the Westminster government.

Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale says "you've had ten years" on education.

"It's a scandal," she says.

Former Labour special adviser Paul Sinclair says the format does not suit Kezia Dugdale as it is the "Ruth and Nicola Show" and then there is "three anxious men" to deal with (David Coburn, Willie Rennie and Patrick Harvie).

Scottish government advisor Campbell Gunn says this election is supposed to be about Brexit.

Mr Gunn says that Nicola Sturgeon is being accused of being obsessed with independence and she didn't mention it once, but both Kezia Dugdale and Ruth Davidson did.

BBC Scotland's Nick Eardley has been checking the reaction on social media

Alex Massie says Ruth Davidson is awkward defending UK government policy and is much more comfortable attacking Nicola Sturgeon.

Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie says: "For the SNP it's always, always about independence."