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I join other people inside and outside Parliament in paying tribute to the personal achievement of the First Minister. We will get a fuller opportunity next week to elaborate on that.
Our aim is for any child, young person or adult who has thoughts of taking their own life, or are affected by suicide, to get the help they need and feel a sense of hope.
Will the minister outline what is being done to support communities to get organised so that they can grasp the opportunities that will arise as a result of the new legal mechanisms delivered by the Scottish Government and the Greens?
This petition is really important; I visited Barnardo’s in Glasgow before the committee made its own visit, and saw how easily young people can become trapped in a vicious circle and how hard it is for them to get out of it.
Only this week, the Labour Party in England raised the same issue about Jeremy Hunt’s stewardship of the national health service there, where 26 per cent fewer people get the help that they need.
The Bill committee stage in the House of Commons began on 26 November 2024, report stage began on 11 March 2025, and it received its third reading on 12 March 2025.
The drafting of these amending regulations was commenced immediately after this announcement, to ensure that no one who receives this new one-off payment would get a lower level of Council Tax Reduction as a result of the payment.
Neurological patients and children are waiting for treatment but cannot get access to the new sick kids hospital, which costs £1.4 million a month but still has no patients in it.
In that sense there is a strong case to be made for a definition of “public authority” which can accommodate the emergence of new forms of “public function” and new models of public service. 280.