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Mr Harvie says the government started a review of the fund but then "pulled the rug from under people" before the review was finished.

We would not have backed the Scottish government budget if it had set out this cut, he states.

43 projects recommended for approval by the independent grants panel have been let down, the Scottish Green co-convener says.

Mr Harvie urges the first minister to replace the lost funding.

Ms Sturgeon says the 65 projects funded last year also have funding this year, totaling £8m.

The sustainable action fund has been increased she adds.

We are satisfied we are living up to our responsibility, the first minister insists.

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Scottish Green Party co-convener Patrick Harvie asks about the Climate Challenge Fund.

This morning the Ferret reports that total funding is at its lowest ever level, says Mr Harvie.

He says given the first minister has declared a climate emergency why is she now sacking the first responders.

The Climate Change Fund is the only one of its kind in the UK, Ms Sturgeon replies.

The first minister says it is part of the overall Sustainable Action Fund that has seen an increase this year and 65 projects were funded by the Climate Change Fund last year.

She points out all policies are under review since the CCC report on climate change.

Tory MSP Edward Mountain highlights the proposed strike action by HIAL workers next Thursday and asks about contingency plans.

Ms Sturgeon says HIAL is working on the plans and would be glad to engage with the MSP on the matter.

Labour MSP James Kelly says child poverty levels in Glasgow are 37%.

The first minister agrees the levels are too high but says they are lower in Scotland than elsewhere in the UK, before pointing to investment in housing and plans for an income supplement.

From the Guardian:

The Home Office has refused a visit visa for the father of the chief executive of the Scottish Refugee Council, external so that he can see his son receive an honorary doctorate.

Sabir Zazai, the 2019 winner of the Lord Provost’s award for human rights, is receiving the doctorate from the University of Glasgow, external for his services to civil society over the last 20 years in the UK. But, in a decision branded “nonsensical”, the Home Office has refused to allow his father to attend the ceremony.

According to a personal email written to Zazai on 13 May by the private secretary to the director general of UKVI, external, the Home Office will not let his father attend the ceremony on 11 June because it doesn’t believe he would return home to Afghanistan.

“I feel that I’m in a high security prison where I’m not allowed family visits,” said Zazai. “I also feel that because of my background as an asylum seeker, my daughters, both British citizens, are being denied their right to a family life because they’re not allowed to meet their grandfather.”

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Labour MSP Jackie Baillie says out of hours services continue to be a problem at the Vale of Leven hospital.

The first minister replies the government wants as many services as possible to be retained at the hospital.

SNP MSP Sandra White asks why the father of Sabir Zazai, the chief executive of the Scottish Refugee Council, is not being allowed to attend an award ceremony at Glasgow University.

Ms Sturgeon thanks Mr Zazai for the contribution he makes to this country and says the Scottish government has written to the Home Office to call for his father to be given a visa.

Mr Leonard says the inquiry's terms of reference says it must give voice to families, patients and others who have experience of suicide.

Will the first minister ensure the families receive an advance copy of the interim report due in the next few weeks, he asks.

Ms Sturgeon reiterates this is an independent inquiry, adding David Strang (who is leading the inquiry) has met with families.

She agrees to pass on the request to Mr Strang.

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Mr Leonard quotes the words of Gilian Murray, who says that: "Nothing seems to have happened, we're not kept involved."

Her uncle David's suicide was one of the tragedies that led to the inquiry into mental health services in Tayside, Mr Leonard says.

The first minister says she does not want to preempt the inquiry's findings.

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Mr Ramsay made three separate attempts at suicide in the space of a week in the autumn of 2016.

His family convinced him to seek urgent help from his GP, who referred him to Carseview because he "required admission".

Mr Ramsay had two emergency assessments, but was turned away from the centre on both occasions.

His niece, Gillian Murray, told BBC Scotland there had been a catalogue of failures over the handling of her uncle's case in the days before he killed himself.

She said Mr Ramsay's death had been preventable as he had told staff "in no uncertain terms" and on separate occasions that he did not want to live and needed help.

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Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard highlights mental health awareness week.

We must recognise that we need to do much more to get our mental health services right, especially at the point of crisis, he says.

Mr Leonard says it has been a year since the inquiry into end-to-end services in Perth and Kinross.

The first minister says the independent inquiry has not reported yet and the Scottish government is not in control of the timing.

We will implement any recommendations from it when it is released, she states.

It is important we continue to tackle the stigma and investment more, as the government is doing, in services Ms Sturgeon says.

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Ms Davidson says if you are the mum of a seven year old you are not going to know until your child is a teenager whether maths is being taught well.

She points out Scotland has lost more than 400 maths teachers and vacancies have gone up.

The last time numeracy was measured Scottish education was going backwards, says Ms Davidson, and asks why parents are being left in the dark.

The first minister insists data is now published at school level but under the Survey of Numeracy and Literacy there was no data at school level for parents.

Ms Sturgeon adds: "There are more teachers in our schools now than at any time since 2010."

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Ms Davidson says the OECD recommended improving the Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy (SSLN), not cancelling it.

The Scottish Conservative leader claims we now have no idea whether standards in literacy and numeracy are rising or falling.

The first minister replies by accusing Ms Davidson of "flip-flopping" on P1 testing.

She goes on to say that there is more data now on pupil performance than there has ever been.

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Annual Scottish government education figures, external showed 70% of P7 pupils across Scotland in 2017-18 were meeting the expected standard in literacy, with 75% achieving this for numeracy.

In the most deprived parts of Scotland last year, just 59% of P7 pupils met the expected standards in literacy, compared with 83% in the most affluent communities.

Meanwhile, two-thirds (66%) of P7 pupils in the poorest areas achieved the expected standards for numeracy, 20 points lower than the 86% who did so in the least deprived areas.

"Pupils from the least deprived areas performed better than pupils from the most deprived areas at all stages," the report noted.

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Ruth Davidson gets FMQs under way, asking by how much numeracy attainment has improved or declined since the first minister took office.

She goes on to claim that the Scottish government is unable to say because it has scrapped the only national numeracy survey in the country's schools.

Ms Sturgeon says this is not true as the government provides more data at every level of the education system than ever before.