I thank the cabinet secretary for providing advance sight of his statement.

Will the member take an intervention?

Thank you, Presiding Officer.

No, I will not, I am afraid.

I am very pleased to open for the Scottish Conservatives in this debate without a motion on Lord Bracadale’s independent review of hate c

Fulton MacGregor and his colleagues have made some pretty robust—and now incorrect—comments about the Conservatives behaving irresponsibl

We acknowledged that point about section 6 at the time, and we talked clearly about it in committee.

I thank the cabinet secretary for advance sight of his statement.

In the north-east, antisocial behaviour has skyrocketed.

Like my party colleagues and—I hope and expect—colleagues throughout the Parliament, I will be very pleased to agree that the Historical