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To ask the Scottish Government what support it is providing to the thousands of children who will be living in temporary and unsuitable accommodation over the Christmas period.
That intervention could save hundreds of lives every year. The cancer screening programme is being rolled out across the whole of England, but not here.
In 2025-26, we are providing funding of more than £1.1 million to organisations that promote LGBTQI+ equality in Scotland, which are working to improve the lives of the communities and to increase their access to services.
That includes the launch of an action plan for Scotland and efforts to work constructively with the national health service and Government bodies to improve the lives of people with chronic kidney disease.
As the member is well aware, it would be inappropriate for me to comment on live litigation—Interruption. I do not know why people find it unusual that ministers cannot comment on live litigation.
On Lorna Slater’s general point, we are living in an era in which disinformation is regularly circulated in our political discourse, which is harming that discourse.
Membership of the advisory board will include people with lived experience of accessing care services, unpaid carers, members of the workforce, care providers, trade unions, the national health service and local government.
The group works collaboratively to identify and mitigate issues that affect children and young people from such families, and it actively seeks out and includes the lived experiences of such children and young people in its work.