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This is an excellent petition, and I praise the petitioner for getting it to us today and the Public Petitions Committee for the work that it has done. Like many members, I have visited the Knapdale site in Argyll and have seen the trial at first hand, and I am very enthusiastic about the work that has been done in the Argyll area and the potential to exten...
I discussed the issue this morning, at a meeting with the director of mental health and social care, which was my first meeting in my new ministerial role. I intend to write to all HSCPs to ensure that such transfers do not happen again.
Imagine how people’s mental wellbeing is after two years of the pandemic. In addition, when we turn on the news, there is no good news. Prices are going up and there are potential wars everywhere.
On appointment to my role, my first act was to visit the Parliament to listen to the debate on the referendum, so it is fitting that another visit is one of my last acts.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the report on the fact-finding visit to the UK by the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, and how this will inform its plan to tackle child poverty in Scotland.