Chamber and committees

Where in the total Scottish budget is the other money that is to be returned of that £61 million? Where is that reflected?

Where do I see that? Where has it gone?

I am running out of time, so I will leave it there.

Good morning, cabinet secretary. I seek some clarification on the questions that the convener has been asking.

You have said that the UK Government has cut the capital budget and that it is to blame for the cuts that you have made to the rural budget. However, I would note that a total of £65 million has been cut from the rural affairs budget, while the capital budgets for other portfolios including health, justice and education have seen cash increases. What did you do to stick up for farmers in the Cabinet meetings on the budget, given the increase in capital budgets in those portfolios?

So, why did that budget see a £65 million cut when other portfolios did not and, in fact, saw an increase?

Thank you, cabinet secretary, for that positive spin from the Scottish Government, but you have not increased the capital budget in this portfolio. It has been cut by £65 million while other portfolios have seen an increase. I just do not get the spin on this; it seems as though farmers have been failed and are the scapegoats of this budget.

I have no interests to declare, but I thank you for asking, convener.

Okay. Can I—

Thank you, convener.

On the risk assessment, the new transgender prisoner policy states that a

“Risk Management Team, and subsequently the Executive Panel”

decide whether a prisoner poses a risk to other female prisoners and is eligible for transfer to a women’s prison. Are they the risk management team and executive panel that decided that Isla Bryson should be sent to a women’s prison?

Okay. I ask Teresa Medhurst to answer the same question. Are the risk management team and executive panel the same people who placed Isla Bryson in the women’s estate?