The External Relations Committee takes evidence on the Scottish budget
Scottish government ministers are quizzed during general questions
Nicola Sturgeon and Ruth Davidson clash over the budget at first minister's questions about what the Chancellor's budget means for Scotland
SNP MSP Ivan McKee leads a debate entitled: 'The Day of the Imprisoned Writer, 15 November'
MSPs debate building regulations and fire safety in Scotland, following the Grenfell Tower tragedy
Conservative MSP Alexander Stewart asks what the government's response is to the recently published internal staff survey from the Scottish Ambulance Service, which suggests that work pressure had affected the health of more than half of the respondents.
Kezia Dugdale has made her first jungle appearance on TV programme I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!.
The former leader of Scottish Labour was introduced as one of two late-entry campmates on Wednesday's live edition of the reality show.
Ms Dugdale admitted some of her political colleagues will be "shocked and angry" at her stint in the Australian jungle.
Image source, ITVScottish Labour has announced Ms Dugdale will not be suspended by the partydespite not being given permission to go on leave to Australia.
The Lothians MSP is expected to be paid tens of thousands of pounds, part of which she will donate to charity, along with her MSP's salary for the three weeks she is away.
Labour MSP James Kelly brings up a Cosla report suggesting there will be "savage reductions" to public services.
The first minister says the Scottish government will publish its budget on 14 December.
Ms Sturgeon says: "We have increased the spending power of local government considerably."
She says Labour call for more money but their own councils ignore them.
Ms Sturgeon makes the first Kezia Dugdale joke, which is met with a combination of groans and mild laughter.
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Image source, bbcTory MSP Murdo Fraser says the chancellor scrapping VAT for Scotland's police and fire services is thanks to Tory MPs.
Ms Sturgeon says when Murdo gets to his feet it is like Christmas coming early.
She points out he has said in the recent past that there is no justification for a VAT refund, and that it was the Scottish Conservatives who had called for a single national police force.
Ms Sturgeon calls for the £140m in VAT "nicked" from the emergency services over the past four years to be refunded.
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Douglas Fraser
Scotland business & economy editor
A wee note about the £2bn. It's not a wee sum, but it might help to have some explanation.
It's the claim made by Philip Hammond for the additional money in his Budget coming to Scotland.
Sounds good. But what does it include?
For a start, it's spread over this year (a modest bit) and the next three financial years.
The source of controversy is that around £1.1bn is reckoned to be 'financial transactions'. That's a new-ish Treasury accounting device to distribute funds, on the understanding that they have to be repaid, eventually. They're for investments in realisable assets.
Image source, HM TreasuryPerhaps Gladstone, the Treasury cat can make sense of it all?
That includes funds going into government co-funding of strategically significant new industries. The Scottish Investment Bank could benefit.
It's also for student loans and for the Help-to-Buy scheme, aimed at supporting first time homebuyers by taking an equity stake, to be repaid when that first home is sold.
There's around £500m of the big number for conventional government capital spending, to build roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, courts and trams.
That's welcome, but not as much as being able to splash around the resource (aka revenue, or day-to-day spending) budget on public services, much of which goes into public sector pay. That comes to somewhere between £350m and £400m over the four years.
Image source, bbcSNP MSP Ash Denham asks what the Scottish government's response is to the Autumn Budget.
Ms Sturgeon reiterates her complaints about the budget.
Ms Denham says the real terms cut to Scotland's revenue budget is a real disappointment.
She says tax payers will pay through the nose for Brexit.
The first minister says the more power in Holyrood the better it will be for people the length and breadth of the country.
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Image source, bbcSNP MSP Kate Forbes asks if the first minister agrees the case for single market membership is growing stronger.
Ms Sturgeon says: "Yes I do, I think the case for remaining in the European Union is growing stronger."
Ratko Mladic: His trial in numbers
Former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic has been jailed for life for genocide and other atrocities in the 1990s Bosnian war.
Known as the "Butcher of Bosnia", Mladic led forces during the massacre of Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) in Srebrenica and the siege of Sarajevo.
The UN tribunal in The Hague convicted him on 10 of the 11 charges.
Mladic, 74, was not in court when the sentence was read out. He had been removed for shouting at the judges.
"It's a lie. Everything you said in this courtroom is a lie," he said.
The outburst came after the judges rejected a request by his team to halt the proceedings because of Mladic's high blood pressure.
Mladic has denied all the charges and his lawyer said he would appeal.
Image source, bbcThe first minister says she welcomes the sentence of Ratko Mladic for war crimes during the Bosnia-Serb war.
She says she knows how much this will mean to the people affected.
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Tory MSP Jeremy Balfour raises the issue of Dad's Rock, external, which helps fathers have better relationships with their children, having to reduce services.
The first minister says she has seen first hand the excellent work Dad's Rock does.
She says she will have her officials look into this.
The first minister says there will be a £200m real terms cut to the day to day resource budget.
Image source, bbcSNP MSP Mairi Gougeon says Dundee's bid to be European Capital of Culture in 2023 has been dealt a fatal blow, according to reports.
Ms Sturgeon says the bid looks as if it is going to be the latest victim of the Tory Brexit.
She says it is "deeply concerning" and she calls on the UK government to explain how it will fix it.
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Image source, Scottish governmentFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Finance Secretary Derek Mackay
On 2 November the Scottish government set out a range of options for future income tax rates ahead of budget negotiations.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon published a discussion paper on rates, posing "tough questions" about rises.
The paper details the potential impact of tax plans advanced by the SNP and by opposition parties, and sets out tests by which these can be judged.
Finance Secretary Derek Mackay will now open talks with other parties in a bid to build a majority for his budget.
Mr Harvie says public sector pay should match the cost of living.
The Scottish Green Party co-convener calls for the first minister to raise more revenue through income tax.
Image source, bbcMs Sturgeon says she published a paper on income tax just a couple of weeks agao.
The first minister says she has set out options no income tax that would see tax revenue help meet the challenges.
She again says the 1% pay cap in the public sector will be lifted.