In the cabinet secretary’s statement on 1 November, one of the reasons that was given for the delays was the correction of defects on the

Lord Bracadale’s expert review recommended that statutory aggravators rather than stand-alone offences should continue to be the core met

In December 2016, Michael Russell stated that membership of the single market was “clearly not going to happen”. What has changed?

I am sorry, Mr Finnie. Perhaps I will take it later.

Will I have time, Presiding Officer?

No one could pretend that Scotland’s rail system does not face significant challenges.

I will come back to that point, because I want to address Alex Cole-Hamilton directly on raising the age beyond 12.

I am pleased to close for the Scottish Conservatives and to speak in favour of the principles of the Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scot

On the point about the “real world”, I was simply picking up the words that were used by Richard Lyle.

I would take an awful lot of persuading on that.