I have a quick supplementary that relates to your answer to Alasdair Allan about health issues.

Lots of women and children have fled from Ukraine, but now we are seeing older people, people with disabilities and people with health conditions beginning to leave, because they have no home to stay in. I flag up the fact that people may arrive with quite a range of health conditions—their need could be as basic as needing free medicines. I hope that the Scottish Government is considering the range of support that people will need for their health and for post-traumatic stress, and not just in the future—it could be that people need that support from day 1, as soon as they arrive.

Your comments about what we hope is the significantly changing picture with regard to visa regulations reinforce the unanimity of the committee’s belief in the need for intergovernmental working on issues, the case for which has been made very powerfully this morning.

I want to follow up on two issues, the first of which is that of seasonal workers, which Mark Ruskell and Fiona Hyslop commented on. The importance of that issue came through powerfully from the Ukrainian consul general. There are 6,000 to 7,000 of those workers, who are very widely geographically spread—they are located in the Lothians, Edinburgh, St Andrews, Dundee and Falkirk.

It is critical that the local authorities and the voluntary sector in those areas gear up, because it is clear that there will be a demand there, and across Scotland, from people applying to come here. As you have acknowledged, the Ukrainian consul general said that their ambition will not be to come here as permanent refugees. They very much want their stay to be short term. I point you to the evidence that we took earlier, which was very specific and helpful.

I have a point to make about work with employers. We have talked about what our local authorities and third sector could do, and I hope that we can agree on the need for us to use our soft power as a country. Gordon Brown has been talking about war crimes and working with lawyers on that. I met him to talk about that yesterday. There is also work that could be done with employers and companies in Scotland. I make a plea to the Government to think about what more we could do there, whether by enabling staff or companies to donate to the Disasters Emergency Committee, or by assisting with access to work visas, where companies are looking for those.

Is there more that we could do to encourage employers to do more? I noticed that Skyscanner advertised and reached out to Ukrainian workers to work in its sector. I know that it is a fast-moving situation. For weeks, we have lobbied the Government about local authorities and visas, but it feels as though the situation in that regard might become more real, and those are some practical issues that I hope that the Scottish Government will pick up on.

I commend to the minister the discussion that the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee had this morning. Some excellent suggestions were made, particularly about gearing up not only our councils but the voluntary sector to support people who come to Scotland for a raft of reasons.

Will the minister commit to working with our business community and public sector partners to support fundraising for the Disasters Emergency Committee, to enable donations to be made? Will he also commit to developing work visas so that Ukrainian people who have skills and talents can come to work in Scotland?

I very much welcome the minister’s positive response to me. I hope that the meeting takes place as soon as possible.

A key issue that the women have raised with me is the lack of knowledge on the ground among their general practitioners. They recently met the Northern Ireland Minister of Health; following that meeting, every GP in Northern Ireland has been sent a fact sheet and information about the crippling impact of Essure devices on women’s physical and mental health.

The sooner such information can be passed to our GPs, the better. Is the minister prepared to consider the issue and see whether we can accelerate getting that information out to GPs across the country, so that women can get support?

In passing the legislative consent motion today, we are able to express our solidarity with the Ukrainian people, 2 million of whom have now fled for safety as their homes and communities have been destroyed in the past few days.

There is much more that we can do, and we urgently need the Conservative UK Government to deliver access to visas so that people who are returning with family members or people who have made the perilous journey to our borders are able to seek refuge here.

We stand in solidarity with Ukraine. We have seen citizens attending rallies and protesting in Scotland about the impact on Ukrainian citizens. We have seen donations to the Disasters Emergency Committee Ukraine appeal and fundraising initiatives across Scotland. Today, outside the Russian consulate in Edinburgh, artists were movingly reciting poems and singing to make human connections, using their right to protest and campaign.

The motion is vital because it is about tackling the issue of those who have extracted money from the Russian people and its economy and kept it for themselves to make them and their families rich. The kleptocrats did not just make money out of businesses; they then bought properties and land, including in this country, which has become more and more valuable over time. We need transparency and we need to end for good the influence of corrupt money.

We believe that the bill that is referenced in the motion does not go far enough. It will not stop the dirty money that has flooded into the UK economy, which Alex Cole-Hamilton mentioned. Action was promised in 2016, but that has not happened. Since then, we have seen £15 billion flood into the purchase of properties where the investors have been accused of corruption or having direct links to the Kremlin. We are impatient for action.

Our UK Labour colleagues attempted to amend the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill to enable it to expand its scope to properties purchased before 2014 in Scotland and 1999 in the rest of the country, and to keep the current transitional period on properties to bring them into the scope of the regime being established.

As Michael Marra eloquently said, there is no logical reason why this must be the case. The whole point of our land reform legislation in Scotland has been to increase transparency, the beneficial use of our land and community involvement and ownership, so the examples that have been given in the chamber today are not acceptable.

We need transparency, so that people cannot hide their ownership and thereby escape the action and accountability that the legislation is intended to deliver. The issue of persons with significant control needs to be addressed now. We need transparency on all the land that is owned and registered in Scotland.

The people of Ukraine are suffering now. They need the accountability and the action that we can deliver in Scotland to put pressure on Putin’s regime. Anyone who has been at any of the demonstrations will know that it is hard to listen to their demands to act now. We need to listen to them and to do what we can.

I also say to the cabinet secretary that we need an urgent review of the ScotWind project, to ensure that no one benefits from our sea bed where sanctions should be imposed. Ethical concerns have been raised, and they should be acted on urgently. Therefore, I ask the cabinet secretary to say in his winding-up speech what action the Scottish Government will take on that issue to address those concerns and deliver transparency.

I welcome the cross-party support that we have had today for both the motion and the amendment. I particularly welcome the measured speech that Donald Cameron made and his support for our party’s amendment. We are not always going to agree in this place, and part of democracy is expressing that disagreement. I agree with the points that Michelle Thomson made about the need for more action.

In conclusion, both the Scottish and UK Governments must pull out all the stops to ensure that transparency is real and that we in this country do everything that we can to tackle the legacy of historical purchases by oligarchs and by those who have cosied up to those in power. It has to stop now.

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will meet with the Life after Essure UK and Ireland support group to discuss its concerns about a lack of awareness and understanding of the reported damaging physical and mental health impacts of Essure sterilisation devices. (S6O-00824)

What preparation is being done to support local organisations that work with our councils, in the hope that we will be able to support people, particularly women and children, who are fleeing Ukraine?

It has been good to hear about where we could get different funding streams from. One of the things that you mentioned in your earlier evidence is the principle of local infrastructure projects. Could you say a bit more about the concept of the per cent for art scheme and local investment, and could you say how you would make sure that that reaches local communities so that they influence what money is spent on, rather than that being, as you described it, something in the middle of a roundabout?

I want to follow on from the first two sets of questions from Jenni Minto and Maurice Golden. On the one hand, it is clear that there is quite a lot of support for the principle of social prescribing, with very good experience on the ground showing that that works. On the other hand, as Maurice Golden has mentioned, there is a lack of multiyear funding, which means that organisations cannot develop the connections with the health sector to enable people to be recommended. Equally, the organisations cannot plan ahead and guarantee that there will be fair work. At previous meetings, we have heard evidence that Covid has knocked the creative sector for six because it has become a hand-to-mouth existence for freelancers and people have had to move out of the sector.

What do you recommend as a way to kick-start that, given that we do not have the networks and the funding? Is it to get money and a commitment to multiyear funding in place? What do you advise us to ask the Scottish Government to do now to start to get the mechanisms in place?

Yes, it does answer the question and the point that you made about business support for the creative sector in particular, given the circumstances, is something that comes across quite loudly. In response to Jenni Minto and Maurice Golden, you referred to the disconnect between the ambitions and the reality. That is definitely something that is worth us reflecting on.