Summary

  • Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson and the first minister clash over links between parties and governments with Cambridge Analytica

  • Time for the health secretary to go? That was the question posed by Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard - the first minister did not agree!

  • Perinatal mental health issues raised by Willie Rennie, the Scottish Lib Dem leader

  • MSPs back the government's call for a safe injection facility for Glasgow

  • Scroll down this page for extensive coverage of FMQs and the safe 'fix rooms' debate

  1. Sturgeon defends record on mental healthpublished at 12:29 British Summer Time 19 April 2018

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    Mr Rennie says the gaps in services have been identified and the government is not doing enough, adding that the Royal College of Midwives has been scathing of the government on this issue.

    The Scottish Lib Dem leader accuses the government of failing on mental health and says it is fast developing a "record of shame" on the issue.

    Ms Sturgeon highlights the work of the Managed Clinical Network in this issue.

    The first minister hopes that members appreciate the range of work being done in mental health provision.

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  3. Government is 'failing' new mothers claims Renniepublished at 12:26 British Summer Time 19 April 2018

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    Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie says new mothers are unable to access specialist mental health service in Tayside, Fife, Dumfries & Galloway, the Western Isles, Orkney or Shetland.

    Only Glasgow meets the required standards in the whole country, he says.

    "Why is this government failing mothers and their children", Mr Rennie asks.

    The first minister says the Neonatal Managed Clinical Network is currently delivering on a workplace to improve provision.

    She says efforts are being made to provide mothers with the access they need.

  4. Postpublished at 12:25 British Summer Time 19 April 2018

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  5. Closure of the minor injuries unit at Yorkhill Hospital in Glasgowpublished at 12:25 British Summer Time 19 April 2018

    SNP MSP Sandra White rases the issue of the closure of the minor injuries unit at Yorkhill Hospital in Glasgow.

    The first minister says she will get the health board to contact Ms White over the issue.

  6. Background: Theresa May apologises to Caribbean leaderspublished at 12:23 British Summer Time 19 April 2018

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    Theresa May's Windrush apology to Caribbean leaders

    Prime Minister Theresa May has apologised to Caribbean leaders over the Windrush generation controversy, at a Downing Street meeting.

    She said she was "genuinely sorry" about the anxiety caused by the Home Office threatening the children of Commonwealth citizens with deportation.

    The UK government "valued" the contribution they had made, she said, and they had a right to stay in the UK.

    It comes amid reports some are still facing deportation.

    Read more here.

  7. Background: Deportation case against Coatbridge mother haltedpublished at 12:23 British Summer Time 19 April 2018

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    A Coatbridge mother who had been facing deportation from Scotland has had the immediate threat of expulsion lifted.

    Olya Merry was told that she could be deported back to Belarus if she does not leave the UK this week.

    Politicians including local MPs and MSPs took up the case, with the Scottish government writing to the home secretary urging a rethink.

    It has now been confirmed that a review of the case will be carried out, with no deportation in the meantime.

    Read more.

  8. Sturgeon lambasts Theresa May over the Windrush scandalpublished at 12:23 British Summer Time 19 April 2018

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    SNP MSP Fulton Macgregor raises the case of Olya Merry from Coatbridge, who had been facing deportation from Scotland but has now had the immediate threat of expulsion lifted.

    The first minister welcomes Ms Merry and her family to the public gallery and details the measures the Scottish government has taken to assist her.

    Ms Sturgeon lambasts Theresa May over the Windrush scandal and for creating a "hostile environment" for immigrants.

  9. Green MSP raises Mossmoran flaringpublished at 12:22 British Summer Time 19 April 2018

    Green MSP Mark Ruskell says SEPA issued a "final warning" to Mossmoran following concerns about "illegal flaring".

    The first minister says she "absolutely understands" local concerns but it is for SEPA to take this forward.

    She says she will ask SEPA to write to the member with further details.

  10. Overnight GP care in Fife raisedpublished at 12:22 British Summer Time 19 April 2018

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    SNP MSP Jenny Gilruth raises the issue of there being no out-of-hours GP coverage in Glenrothes for the first time, after the Fife health board withdrew the service.

    The first minister encourages the public to engage in the consultation over the issue.

  11. Background: Warnings over NHS Tayside 'not taken seriously'published at 12:20 British Summer Time 19 April 2018

    Caroline GardnerImage source, SPTV

    Warnings over the finances of NHS Tayside have "sounded very cleary" in the last few years, but were not "taken seriously", the head of Scotland's public spending watchdog has said.

    Caroline Gardner, the Auditor General for Scotland, said there was a "significant question" about why this had happened when speaking the the Public Audit Committee this morning.

    But she insisted the fact the board's financial difficulties had come to light showed the audit system was working, denying suggestions from MSP Colin Beattie it was a "chocolate fireguard".

    Ms Gardner said auditors had flagged that "as being something which was an unusual transaction which played into the growing picture of financial pressures at NHS Tayside".

    Former health secretary Alex Neil warned it was "inevitable" other health boards could have behaved in a similar way.

  12. Leonard says the time has come for health secretary to gopublished at 12:20 British Summer Time 19 April 2018

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    Ms Sturgeon says she does not agree with Richard Leonard's characterisation of the Scottish government's role in NHS Tayside.

    The first minister again details the health secretary's actions in response to the problems at the health board.

    Mr Leonard says none of the steps taken have worked.

    He cites the aiding of charitable funds after "fiddling" of the accounts, which he says happened under the nose of the health secretary who is an MSP for the area.

    Mr Leonard says the time has come for the health secretary to go.

    The first minister says she will not be doing so.

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  14. Background: NHS Tayside to repay charity fund cash after rowpublished at 12:16 British Summer Time 19 April 2018

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    NHS Tayside has needed tens of millions of pounds in loans from the government in recent years

    NHS Tayside is to repay money into an endowment fund which sparked a row costing two senior managers their job.

    The health board's top management team was replaced after cash from the charity fund was used to pay for projects including a new IT system.

    The board's new chiefs called an extraordinary board meeting on Thursday to agree to pay back the money.

    Health Secretary Shona Robison welcomed the move, which has been paid for with brokerage loans from the government.

    And she warned that any other health boards found to have made "inappropriate" use of endowment funds by the charity watchdog would have to pay it back "swiftly and in full".

    An external review of governance at NHS Tayside is under way after a series of financial issues at the board, which has been propped up by tens of millions of pounds in "brokerage" loans from the Scottish government in recent years.

    MSPs on Holyrood's public audit committee have been warned by NHS Scotland chief Paul Gray that the board's finances are "likely to deteriorate further".

  15. Were repeated warnings about NHS Tayside finances not taken seriously?published at 12:16 British Summer Time 19 April 2018

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    Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard says the Auditor General told MSP this morning that repeated warnings about the finances of NHS Tayside were not taken seriously.

    Ms Sturgeon says it is not the case that the government has not worked hard on this issue.

    The issue around endowment funds being used improperly was not flagged up to the Scottish government, otherwise action would have been taken, she insists.

    The first minister cites the recent emergency intervention by the health secretary.

    Mr Leonard says the situation at NHS Tayside did not come as a surprise to anyone who was watching.

  16. 'To the rest of us it just looks pretty shifty' - Davidsonpublished at 12:14 British Summer Time 19 April 2018

    ruth davidson

    Ms Davidson says the SNP fling out accusations against opponents and then, when the party is caught out, gives half answers to questions put to it.

    "To the rest of us it just looks pretty shifty," she says.

    The first minister asks which of the links she set out between the Tories and Cambridge Analytica were untrue.

    Ms Sturgeon reiterates Cambridge Analytica have never done any work for the SNP or the Scottish government, nor has the company any been paid or hired by either.

    The first minister then lists the questions she thinks she should have been asked by Ruth Davidson.

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  18. First minister refuses to name SNP consultant who met with Cambridge Analyticapublished at 12:10 British Summer Time 19 April 2018

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    Ms Sturgeon says the meeting took place between the SNP consultant and Cambridge Analytica in February 2016.

    She insists she won't name the consultant, who she said had done nothing wrong.

    The first minister again says it is the Conservative Party and the UK government that are mired in links with Cambridge Analytica.

  19. Who, when and where? Davidson askspublished at 12:09 British Summer Time 19 April 2018

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    Ruth Davidson says the UK Conservative party were not caught out "spreading allegations" about others.

    "That was all on you," she tells the first minister.

    Who was the SNP consultant who held the meeting, she asksm and when and where did it take place?

  20. Sturgeon says SNP thought Cambridge Analytica were 'bunch of cowboys'published at 12:08 British Summer Time 19 April 2018

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    Ms Davidson says the SNP have raised sanctimony to an art form, but what stinks here is the stench of hypocrisy.

    The Scottish Conservative leader says it took a whistleblower for the meeting to have been made public.

    The first minister says the former CEO of Cambridge Analytica said it is not uncommon for the company to speak with political parties, and said he had pitched to most of them.

    Ms Sturgeon says the SNP decided this was not a company it wanted to work, with judging them as a "bunch of cowboys", and questioned why the UK government had apparently not done the same.