Amendment 93, which is in my name, would require the circular economy strategy to set out how offshoring of waste would be reduced. During our discussions at stage 2, there was considerable support for attempts to ensure that the offshoring of Scotland’s waste is reduced through the bill’s provisions.

Statistics that were published last year by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency revealed that 6,500 tonnes of waste had been shipped overseas from Scotland between 2018 and 2022. If the bill is to achieve a truly circular economy, that needs to stop. That is why it is essential that the strategy sets out steps to reduce offshoring of waste. I have seen the impact of rubbish littering coastlines abroad. We need to ensure that we do the right thing here.

Amendment 96, in my name, would strengthen the requirements that the Scottish ministers must take into account when devising the circular economy strategy. A number of them reflect the purposes of a circular economy. It is my expectation that amendment 96 would ensure that the strategy would take those factors into account.

There is a raft of really positive amendments in the group. Those from Mark Ruskell, Maurice Golden and Ben Macpherson cover important issues including critical materials and the

“whole life-cycle carbon emissions of goods”.

Maurice Golden’s amendment 98 highlights the need to ensure that key sectors of the economy are involved in the creation of a strategy that reduces the impact of waste. Reduction of

“construction materials, steel, plastics and textiles”

is good not only for our waste economy but for our climate.

I clarify that amendment 98 is not in my name but in Maurice Golden’s; I am simply indicating my support for it. However, I very much agree with Paul Sweeney’s point.

Ben Macpherson’s amendment 66 highlights several issues that we need to address. Clare Adamson’s amendment 45, on the importance of consumer and workplace safety, also mentions critical factors and needs to be supported. My colleague Monica Lennon has lodged a series of excellent amendments, which I hope members will support.

I am conscious that this will be a long debate, so I will not make a mini-speech on every amendment.

I draw members’ attention to my entry in the register of members’ interests in relation to the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations.

On the issue of capital spending and the massive underspend of £130 million, the minister dismissed that as involving a couple of days of work and a late project, but surely that capital spending could have been used. NHS projects are being put on hold, and there is a housing emergency. Surely that £130 million could have been allocated to build urgently needed homes to tackle homelessness and create local jobs. Instead of underspending, can we not just get on with that work now?

I thank the cabinet secretary for advance notice of her statement.

For years, the UK Climate Change Committee has been warning that the Scottish Government has not been ramping up the action that is urgently needed to tackle our climate emergency. Today’s statement is, as ever, highly selective in greenwashing the SNP’s achievements. It did not mention that the SNP Government failed to deliver the £133 million that it budgeted to retrofit homes, bring down people’s bills and reduce their emissions. Since the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019 was passed, the Government has failed to deliver the transformation in bus services that we need, which means that many people are forced to use cars, as there are simply no affordable bus services available. We have been waiting months for the energy strategy, the green industrial strategy and the climate change action plan.

Given that this is the ninth time in 13 years that the Scottish Government has failed to deliver, when will climate activists—who are angry, disappointed and worried that this continual failure leaves Scotland’s credibility in serious jeopardy—see the radical action that we urgently need?

By ending a vital source of funding for home owners for solar photovoltaics and battery tech, the Scottish Government is disincentivising climate action, damaging the solar installation industry and negatively impacting on solar and storage supply chains in Scotland. What impact has the Scottish Government assessed that that will have on those vital green jobs, given the warnings from the sector about undermining certainty for Scottish businesses, jobs and supply chains?

Will the minister not accept that, for many Scottish households, the ability to install solar panels would have been followed by the installation of heat pumps and storage systems but this decision will make it too expensive for our constituents to take that vital action to reduce bills? Given the popularity of the products, will the Scottish Government reinstate this vital funding to tackle climate change, create jobs and bring people’s energy bills down now?

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reported claims that its net zero targets are at serious risk if solar is not reinstated to the Home Energy Scotland grant and loan scheme. (S6T-02046)

With 84 per cent of Scotland’s future population growth expected to be in the Lothians, NHS Lothian is in desperate need of investment, but our health board is already having to make a 6 per cent saving by cutting vital services, including diabetes technology. Yesterday, in a meeting with the cabinet secretary, the campaign group KEEP—keep Edinburgh eye pavilion—reinforced the urgent need for investment in a new eye pavilion. What will the Scottish Government do now to ensure that our health board has the funding to cope with substantial increases in our population now and in the future?

Only 38 per cent of type 1 diabetics in NHS Lothian have access to a flash glucose monitor, compared with 51.8 per cent across Scotland. The divide is even more stark for children, as only a quarter of paediatric patients in NHS Lothian have access to an FGM, compared with 35.5 per cent across Scotland. That technology is life changing for those who receive it, but type 1 diabetics in the Lothians are being short changed. What is the Deputy First Minister’s Government doing to increase access to flash glucose monitors across the Lothians?

On a point of order, Presiding Officer. Can I just double-check that my vote was cast?