Chamber and committees

How have Brexit and the United Kingdom immigration policy affected the ability of the NHS to recruit additional staff? The cabinet secretary mentioned that the NHS has recruited 200 nurses internationally. Has the NHS faced any difficulties in being able to do that?

In a conversation at the weekend, when I was socialising with friends who are all front-line NHS staff, at the mention of Audit Scotland’s call for more data their faces fell. They feel that the collection of that data and the time that they have to spend on that distracts them from front-line services. There is a balance to find there, because if Audit Scotland is wanting more and more data, the backlog in front-line services will just get bigger and bigger. How do we get that balance?

I will not tell you what I was celebrating.

We could write to Derek Todd at the Scottish sensory hub, who is a lead BSL consultant with the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland.

The clerks suggest that we write to the Scottish Government to ask how the petitioner can engage with the development of the national strategy on ending intimate and sexual violence against men and boys. We should also write to Police Scotland to ask about its approach to gender-informed domestic abuse training, and to the stakeholders that are outlined in the petitioner’s recent submission.

Thank you.

I would like to visit one of the ancient or native woodlands to see what the problems are.

Also, as a sitting MSP, I have heard complaints from constituents about trees being removed that had been protected by tree preservation orders, on which the response from Fife Council—I will put this on record—was that it was not in the public’s interest to prosecute. I would like to write to all the local authorities in Scotland to see how many prosecutions they have undertaken with respect to TPOs for native woodland or trees in their areas, just to see what response we get.

Yes.

Considering that the Scottish Government is committed to advertising before the ban comes into force next year, we can close the petition under rule 15.7 of standing orders.

Good morning. How would you like HIAL to involve communities that are served by its airports in the development of future plans and proposals?