 I will move swiftly on to the next debate, because I can see that everybody is in their front-bench places. I will call the next side of business to debate on motion 1671 on the name of Brian Whittle on health education. I invite those members who wish to speak in this debate to press the request to speak buttons now. I call on Brian Whittle to speak to it and move the motion. If I can have a wee bit of quiet, please, Mr Whittle. I am delighted to have the opportunity to open the debate on behalf of the Scottish Conservatives, and I now move the motion on my name. I can also thank all the organisations who sent in briefing documents. I will struck, with the opening sentence in the briefing that is submitted by the Scottish Food Coalition, which reads, Our food environment promotes and normalises unhealthy diets. However, it has to be noted that our farmers produce the highest-quality food. They are charged with the custodianship of the countryside, pay at least a living wage and ensure the highest animal welfare standards. Yet, when it comes to public food procurement, we find that a high proportion of the food in our schools and hospitals, much of which could be sourced locally, comes from cheaper imports. I have said before in this chamber that only 16 per cent of the excel procurement contracted food is sourced from our own food grown by Scottish farmers. I will take a brief information. I am grateful to Brian Whittle. The member mentioned food in our hospitals and in schools. I wonder what his view is on processed meats being served in both those locations that can train nitrites. Does he believe that we should see a shift to nitro-free meats in our schools and hospitals? I thank Monica Lennon for that intervention. If we followed the path that I am trying to get is that procuring food is locally sourced to the schools as possible, that particular problem would be solved in one fell swoop. The Government cannot be satisfied with the lack of support for our food producers. It contrasts with the gold standard in East Ayrshire, where nearly 75 per cent of ingredients for school meals are sourced locally. There cannot be no excuse. We will be supporting the Government's amendment, but in doing so, noting that its amendment is rather high on platitudes and light and positive action. It is not enough to note that schools are a place of education. That is hardly a revelation. What we need to do is afford pupils the opportunity to apply that learning. However, as Education Scotland has said in its report that, following 109 nutritional inspections of secondary schools, some 70 per cent of school meals failed to meet nutritional standards. Platitudes will not solve that problem. We need to create an environment where the learning that pupils receive in schools can be applied in the real world. If it were left to pupils, I would suggest that they deliver their learning that they receive. I am pretty sure that the system that they come up with would not look much like the current one. I have to say, as for the Labour amendment, apart from the regurgitating of the issues that there is a higher prevalence of fast food, alcohol and tobacco outlets in the more deprived areas, which is one of the main reasons that we are having this debate, there is little substance to it. In fact, I think that it is the usual one-dimensional approach. When you drive past any fast food outlet near a school at lunchtime and there are huge queues of school pupils, is that the result of a lack of money or austerity? Is the fact that so many pupils who are eligible for a school meal yet still choose to join the fast food queues an austerity issue? I have to say that you have chosen to avoid the issue in favour of plumbing a tired political line in search of some kind of prevalence, and frankly, I will take an intervention. Mr Whittle must surely understand that young people want to spend time with other young people, that if their friends are going out for lunch, they may wish to join them. Surely the best that we could do is to make sure that everyone has enough of an income so that they are not stigmatised. Some young people find stigma in the fact that they are known to be having a free school meal, which is part of the issue. Brian Whittle, I will let you make up your time. Can I flip that on its head? In fact, when we have free school meals, most people do not know who it is against free school meals, because they have a card to get the school meal, and what we should be doing is encouraging more school children to stay in school, to get a healthy meal and they would not have to go. What we actually have to do is understand what drives that kind of behavioural pattern. It is an obvious first step and key to that to ensure that the food on the plates in schools is of the highest quality, preferably sourced by local farmers. Given pupils' input into menu choices as part of that education, we will afford that buy-in, so more pupils will stay in school. Planning has to be part of play, as I think is trying to be indicated in the Labour movement. We need to stop food vans from camping outside schools and be more selective in what outlets are granted licences near schools. How else are pupils going to be dissuaded from ejecting school meals in favour of fast food? It is not rocket science, it just needs the courage and the will to act. We all know that healthy diet is one of the cornerstones of health and wellbeing, along with physical activity and inclusivity. A much debated in the chamber is issues such as mental health and eating disorders and preventable cancers, diabetes, educational attainment, preventable health agenda, musculoskeletal additions and obesity. All should have nutrition as a key component in that policy. I have yet to hear a minister mention nutrition as part of a solution in any of the plethora of ministerial statements that we have been recently bombarded with. If I take an example, it is very clear from research the part that basic healthy diet has to play in impacting mental health. In the mental health health foundation's presentation Food for Thought, they state that one of the most obvious yet unrecognised factors in developing of mental health is nutrition. They go on to say that there is a growing body of evidence indicating that nutrition may play an important role in the prevention, development and manage of diagnosed mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, attention to deficit, hyperactivity disorder and dementia. I would say that getting it right from day one has to be the goal. It is much easier to influence it at the early age than to try and change behaviours later in life. Much of the health and education pathways are already set by the time children reach school age, so the importance of early good practice cannot be overstated. Education is a crucial background, so not just tackling the obvious attainment goals but also for better health outcomes. I think that Sir Harry Burns stated that the way in which we nurture children, the way in which we bring children into the world and the way in which we look after them in the first years of life is absolutely critical to the creation of physical, mental and social health. I think that what we have to do, Deputy Presiding Officer, is to understand what programmes need to be delivered if there is not a delivery mechanism. It will be our healthcare professionals, our teachers and the third sector whom we will turn to. The evidence is there to tell us that they are given adequate support, the space for creativity and innovation. I have only got one minute left. For this debate, we could have had, in my opinion, should have had the cabinet secretaries for health, education and the rural economy sitting in the Government benches speaking to this motion. Not to have them put forward for this debate for me highlights the continuing lack of understanding of the complexities of the issue from the Scottish Government. Until they are prepared to deliver a whole-system cross-portfolio approach, they will continue to make little progress in the policy area. We are talking about a significant system change, the benefit of which will take time to realise. If implemented by the current Scottish Government, it will not get the credit, it will be subsequent administrations that take the plaudits. As I have said in my very first speech in this place, you can achieve anything as long as you do not mind who gets the credit. More than that, any other time, this place has the capability of meaningfully affecting Scotland's long-term rising health and education crisis. Nutrition is the key pillar of good health and education, which therefore tackles and a much-discussed health inequalities and attainment. The solutions lie entirely within the competency of this Parliament. It is time that the Scottish Government grasps the nettle to stop the endless pontificating and taking around the edges and deliver effective change. Can you please move your motion? Mr Whittle? I move the motion. Thank you very much. I thank Brian Whittle for giving us the opportunity to debate this important subject. I wanted to then go on and say just how heartened I had been that, in general, when we had these debates, we have managed to debate them in a cross-party way. I had hoped that that would be the case today. I hope that that is the case for the rest of today's debate, because I was genuinely disappointed by the tone of Brian Whittle's contribution, because it is not where we have been when we have been discussing this very important matter in the past. I hope that we can get back to working together across this chamber on an issue that is very, very important. I do think that we genuinely share my ambition and our ambition is for a Scotland where we eat well and have a healthy weight and are physically active. I am sure that that is something that we all share. Eating well in childhood impacts on the quality of our later lives. Last year, we published a comprehensive delivery plan with a strong emphasis on the early years. If we can get it right then, we can prevent ill health in the first place. The scale of the problem that we face is significant. 26 per cent of children in Scotland are at risk of being overweight or obese, and half of those are at risk of obesity. A baby born to an obese mum is more likely to become obese in childhood and remains so as an adult. Those are stark facts. We in government are taking a joined-up approach right across government to drive the improvements that we need, to focus minds with set ambitious targets, having childhood obesity by 2030 and significantly reducing diet-related health inequalities. However, the Government cannot solve that alone. We must and will provide leadership, but that is a shared responsibility. Citizens, business, the NHS, local government and the third sector must work across society. We want to make it easier for everyone to make healthier choices. Personal responsibility is important, but making good decisions is tough. We are constantly bombarded with messages that encourage us to impulse buy and over-consume junk food. We are pleased that we are making progress on that. We have already consulted on proposals for restricting junk food promotions. Food Standards Scotland is working on proposals for improving food and drink out of home. Later this year, we will explore whether planning policy could be used to improve the food environment. I know that the areas around schools are of great concern to members across the chamber. I want to turn now to ensuring children in Scotland, no matter where they live, learn and play, eat well and have a healthy weight. Schools, nurseries and out-of-school care all play an important part. By August 2020, we will increase the hours of funded early learning and childcare and ensure that children receive healthy meals and snacks, as well as active play and learning. We have consulted on important changes to our school food regulations, informed by the latest evidence, and we will publish the results of those later this month. Soon we will consult on our plans for out-of-school care, ensuring alignment with the high standards of our school food. I want to acknowledge the importance of education. We want young people to leave school equipped to make good choices about their health and the food that they consume. Curriculum for Excellent provides opportunities for learning about food and nutrition, but our plan recognises that parents and children have contact with many other professionals, too. They have a responsibility for promoting healthy eating, especially in those early years. At the outset, I highlighted our ambition to reduce diet-related health inequalities. Many of the actions that I have referred to will contribute to improvements, but we must also tackle the root causes. We are determined that people have enough money to feed themselves and their family. Too many people in Scotland face food insecurity. That is why we continue to challenge the UK Government's punitive welfare reforms, to continue to promote the living wage and to continue to take a rights-based approach to the design and delivery of Scotland's social security system. Through the good food, I will ask the minister, will he enshrine a right to food in the forthcoming good food nation bill? Joe FitzPatrick Through the good food nation, we will look at how we can give better effect to our rights-based approach in practice, as we have done with social security. For people, improving our diet and weight at any age can make a massive difference to our health and quality of life. For people with or at risk of type 2 diabetes, healthy weight is of particular importance. This disease can have a devastating impact on people's lives. It is largely preventable, yet we spend around 9 per cent of the health budget treating it. Here, too, we have ambitious plans, and we are investing £42 million over five years to help people to make sustained changes to their diet and lifestyle. Finally, I want to acknowledge the importance of physical activity. Last year, we published our delivery plan to support people in Scotland to be more physically active. Actions include more opportunities for young people to participate in sport before, during and after school. It is vital that we all get behind this work to deliver what I hope is our shared ambitions—to improve our food environment, making it easier for all of us to make healthier choices, to give children the best start in life and to help people to become more active more often. I move the amendment in the name of the Deputy First Minister. I congratulate the Conservative group for selecting health education as their topic of debate this afternoon. I agree with the bulk of the thrust of Brian Whittle's opening speech, which stressed the importance of nutrition, not least in the role of tackling the pandemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes. I want to focus on the preventable health agenda, my remarks, and look at the bigger picture—the role that austerity and health inequality plays in Scottish health education. Last year, I was invited to visit young people at Charleston academy in Venice to talk about diabetes as the joint chair of the cross-party group. The class that I spoke to had an in-home app that could read barcodes of supermarket products and translate the composition of food into amounts of sugar that it contained. As an experiment, it scanned a large box of jaffa cakes. It contained 32 lumps of sugar, a major contributor to the development of type 2 diabetes. As we found from the minister and other speakers earlier, being classed as obese or overweight is a significant contributing factor to developing type 2, and with our obesity crisis, it is unfortunately no surprise that figures on this condition make for bleak reading. Over 257,000 people in Scotland are diagnosed with type 2, and a further 500,000 are at risk of developing it. As we all know in the chamber today, with the diagnosis of type 2, can serious complications the risk of blindness and the risk of amputation. As the minister said earlier, almost £1 billion is spent on the NHS on tackling diabetes, but 80 per cent of that goes in managing avoidable complications. However, when we are faced with the complexity of our obesity and our diabetes problems, it is easy to feel overwhelmed. Some of us, and it seems that it is not in the chamber today, may longly hark back to the good old days when food was less processed and children played outside rather than sitting and playing football manager. However, nostalgia is not a solution. The key is an approach that will not just negatively restrict unhealthy foods but also make the option of a balanced diet much more practical. We all know that the growth of out-of-home eating means that any strategy needs to be consistently strong approach when it comes to labelling and marketing of foods by restaurants and takeaways. However, that environmental shift needs to encompass much more than just our food culture. Although the nature of our public health challenge may look very modern, under the surface, the root causes are the same old story. Poverty, social deprivation and inequality are significant contributors to being overweight, and it is the least well-off we are most at risk. For example, a quarter of all children living in our most deprived areas at our risk of obesity compare to only 17 per cent in the least deprived. I think that this problem was captured very well by the health and support committee's report on health inequalities from 2015 when it stated, and I quote, "...a boy born today in Lensie, East and Bartshire, can expect to live till he's 82, yet for a boy born only eight miles away in Calton, east end of Glasgow, life expectancy may be as low as 54 years, a difference of 28 years, or almost half as long again as his whole life." Art and health inequalities are, in fact, just inequalities. They cannot be explained away purely as food choices that individuals make. As food prices have risen, it has become harder for families in a tight budget to buy meals that are both filling and nutritious. Evidence shows, of course, that consumers want to buy healthier foods but think that it is more expensive. Regulation of product promotions needs to be more ambitious than merely reducing the number of unhealthy foods on offer. Placing restrictions on the formulation, sale and advertising of food products is beneficial, but it is also complex and tricky. So reversing our obesity crisis will require a cross-government commitment that is realistic about the impact that poverty makes on individual health. It is fine to talk about active travel, but what if it is not safe to walk or cycle in your local neighbourhood? It is fine to talk about healthy eating, but what if you cannot buy fresh fruit and veg from your local shops due to rising food prices? It is fine to promote a balanced lifestyle, but what if you are on a minimum wage with a zero-hour contract and you need to grab fast food dinner during your split shift? To be serious about improving the health expectations of all our citizens means to be more determined to eradicate poverty in Scottish communities. We need, as my party in the Scottish Public Party has argued, a right to food in a good food nation bill. That is why we believe that tackling wealth inequalities is the heart of health and, indeed, all policy agenda. All we need to do is have the will to do and the soul to dare, and I move the amendment in my name. I also welcome the debate today, and I am sure that there is much in the motion that the whole chamber will agree upon. Good nutrition and access to good nutrition should be at the core of our health, education and food systems. I very much welcome the mention in the Labour amendment of the right to food, because Greens have long backed the call to enshrine this right to food into Scots law. I very much look forward to the upcoming debates around the good food nation legislation, where we can make this a reality. This needs to be a priority of Government minister, and it needs to be a priority for multiple ministers in government, from the Cabinet Secretary for Rural, to the environment, to the entire cabinet. The right to food is not simply about delivering emergency food supplies, it is about enabling people to purchase, cook and enjoy high-quality, healthy food no matter what their circumstances are in life. I also welcome the recognition in the motion of the need for high-quality local produce in early-year settings, and the fact that public procurement can be used to boost the local rural economy. This is something else that the Greens have been pushing for in the good food nation legislation, with targets for local procurement and a full national roll-out of the excellent food for life programme in all councils as a minimum. However, I have to take issue with the Conservative motion, because there are actions at local government level in Scotland that do not stand up to those fine words. The Conservative-led Perth and Kinross Council, for example, earlier this year, voted to close all of their school kitchens, putting 50 local staff out of a job, and preparing meals centrally in a kitchen in Dundee before blast freezing and shipping to schools for reheating at a later date. The last time I criticised the plan in this chamber, I was invited to taste test the school meals to see how much the pupils will enjoy them, and I do not doubt that. I enjoy chicken nuggets from time to time, but it does not mean that I want my children to eat them for lunch every single day. How do ready meals made in a central kitchen contribute to health and nutrition education in schools? How does it support local producers through public procurement, or increase the amount of fresh fruit and vegetables our children are consuming? How does it encourage pupil choice in designing menus and the experience that they have in our schools? One local councillor in Perth and Kinross described the plan as a job-killing proposal that puts the viability of a mega-kitchen in Dundee above the needs of kids and our local hard-working catering staff. If the Tory motion today means that the local councillors will be instructed to reverse those plans, I will be delighted to vote for it, but I fear that this debate is hypocrisy from a party that puts financial savings over our children's health and wellbeing first. I am tight for time, so I will not be able to give away in this debate. Looking at the wider context of the debate, learning outdoors in a play-based environment is also a key part of an active lifestyle for our children. However, one in four Scots say that the quality of their green spaces has declined in the last five years and that council spending on parks and green spaces has reduced by a quarter in the last six years. The declining quality of Scotland's natural environment is taking away the rights of children to take part in outdoor activity and exercise. We also need to address the environment that our kids grow up in, where they are so often surrounded by high-fat, high-sugar, ultra-processed foods. We need to consider a levy on multiple retailers and caterers who promote too much poor-quality food. We cannot ignore the fact that child poverty and child health are inextricably linked. Families dependent on income support are likely to be the most in need of additional resources to ensure good nutrition. While we recognise the positive impact of schemes such as Healthy Start, there are significant numbers of barriers to the scheme, such as eligibility and awareness of the process. The Good Food Nation Bill must provide the foundation stone for a healthier nation, one that links producers with citizens with quality healthier food. I look forward to the Government finally bringing forward an ambitious bill to this Parliament. Alex Cole-Hamilton, for up to four minutes, please. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I am also grateful to the Conservatives for securing time for this debate. It is an important debate. It is really important to the health of our nation and I will come on to why. However, I am slightly confused. I will just come out and say this. I do find it odd that the self-styled natural party of government that once boasted that it was the most successful party in Western Europe should choose at this moment of national crisis that its topic for debate be recipe suggestions for five-year-olds. They cannot hide away from and escape their disastrous Brexit policy however much they try. I am in my first minute. If I have time, I will come back to you. One of the most visible Conservative spokespeople of the last couple of weeks, that MP Mark Francois, given that all moderates have now left, has been comparing Brexit to the Second World War. It is perhaps not a surprise that the Scottish Conservatives are extolling the wartime virtues of locally foraged food for school dinners and digging for victory, or, if at least not victory, then, apocalypse survival. My fear is that, with trade barriers and tariffs, the Conservatives may be raising a generation of children who have never yet to see a tangerine or a banana until the rationing ends. I will take an intervention now. Liz Smith, what is the member's thought about what he has just said? Is there anything more important than the young people of Scotland today? Alex Cole-Hamilton I was thinking about them in every word that I said in that opening, because there is nothing more of a threat to the young people in this country than the crisis that this Conservative Government has plunged us into. Presiding Officer, I digress food matters. Whilst I may take exception to the timing of today's motion, I have no exception with its content. I remember that, with great interest, I was a member of the health committee learning from a senior physician that, in his view, the six most important doctors are, in fact, sleep, exercise, sunlight, water, fresh air and vegetables. Again, while I may pause gone on the Conservatives, I salute them for bringing this debate to the chamber. It is important and it is significant. The imperative for us to take nutrition and healthy living is acute. We know that £4.6 billion a year is spent on the cost of obesity in our hospitals, and it is responsible for 10.8 per cent of caseload in the NHS. 300,000 people are diabetic in this country. There is a socio-economic multiplier to that. In the Scottish Indian disease of multiple deprivation, those areas, the highest ranked in those tables, are often the furthest away from fresh produce and lack the basic understanding of independent living skills to prepare healthy, homemade and cheap meals on a daily basis. I very much support the Government's efforts in this regard around the Good Food Nation Bill. I want to see that, like the rest of the chamber, underpinned by legislation. The Trustal Trust remarks and points challenges to look at that as the eradication initially of hunger, given that one in five households in deprived areas have frequently skipped meals or prioritised other things than putting food on the table because of the nature of their circumstance. Sustenance is a human right. I support the calls of the Scottish Food Coalition to see a statutory right to food, and I would like to ask the Scottish Government to respond to that in terms of its remarks and where that fits in the legislative context. Food nutrition is vital. It is vital in not just our societies and our homes but also in our caring environments as well. I quite publicly raised an issue about an ill-prepared hospital meal that was served to a friend's mother a few weeks ago. I want to thank the cabinet secretary for the action that she took, because I recognise that that was an exception, but it was important to give light to that problem. She has dealt with it well, and I hope that we see across our hospitals a renaissance in food production and the quality therein. I want to thank the Conservatives. I was perhaps being facetious at the top of my remarks, but that is an issue that should unite the chamber. We move to the open debate. Time is very tight, so please come in under four minutes. John Scott, followed by Emma Harper. Can I begin by declaring an interest of a farmer, a food producer, the founder of farmers markets in Ayrshire in the west of Scotland? Can I also welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate today in health education? Presiding Officer, for me this debate starts as far back as 1996, when Lord James Douglas Hamilton still remembered the fiction by some in this place from the years he spent here. A minister in the Scottish Office first introduced the Scottish diet action plan to improve the health of the people of Scotland. Ten years later, the Scottish diet action plan was reviewed in this Parliament under the Labour-Liberal Coalition by Professor Tim Lang, and the problems caused by poor diet and lifestyle choices had got worse. The schools health, promotion and nutrition Scotland bill was passed in this place in 2007, and I and others encouraged the minister Andy Kerr to introduce a national procurement plan at that time so that only local Scottish food would be used in our schools, prisons and hospitals, but little happened. Mark Ruskell probably was alluding to that. Cabinet Secretary, Richard Lochhead, around 2010-11, looked at this problem again, and the statistics had deteriorated still further. Here we are today, wringing our hands again, asking what is to be done as life expectancy has now started to reduce in Scotland, and today we confront the results of Ayrshire for the last 12 years by the Scottish Government in this area of responsibility. That Scotland is the country where one of the poorest records on health in Europe should be a matter of shame for the SNP Government, and what that currently means is that children from deprived areas are almost twice as likely to become obese as children from more affluent backgrounds. Dietary goals have been missed for 20 years, with only 15 per cent of children eating five a day. Scotland has one of the worst obesity records in OECD countries, with two-thirds of adults overweight, and still the Government does nothing. Indeed, the Scottish Government has only tinkered round the edges and made no real effort at all to improve public health in terms of diet in the 12 years that it has been in office and the problems continue to grow. Today, Scottish Conservatives suggest again, as a starting point, that only locally produced Scottish food should normally be available in our schools, hospitals and prisons. No, I'm sorry, I don't have time. Perhaps eight to ten years ago, East Ayrshire valiantly introduced the policy of recognising then the huge need for improved diet in East Ayrshire, with the consequence of poor diet, namely poor physical and mental health, evident in what is now part of Jean Freeman's constituency. Buy local, eat local, as a straight line was first used by me when our leaflet Scottish Conservatives distributed over 10 years ago, and it is still what needs to be done today. In addition, exercise is the new wonder drug, as I have again rediscovered from myself in later life, and physical activity should be a core part of children's lives from nursery school through to leaving school. Exercise improves both physical and mental health, and the lack of it in our children and young people is one of the keys to so many of the problems now being encountered by all age groups across Scotland. Exercise does not need to be overthought or be expensive, and it could be added to school curriculums at little or no cost, and I salute Elaine Wiley for creating the daily mile initiative. The problems that we face today at their simplest could, in large part, be resolved by better diet, preferably of food produced in Scotland, and more exercise. It is time to get our sleeves rolled up and get started for once on an uncomplicated agenda, as all the evidence points to straightforward solutions. Emma Harper, followed by Johann Lamont. I would like to thank Brian Whittle for bringing this important motion to chamber today, and I am pleased to speak this afternoon to reaffirm the need for people right across Scotland to have the means to live a healthy and active lifestyle, particularly by ensuring access to our country's finest and freshest produce. I agree with what the motion before us states this afternoon did since my election in 2016. I have been continually working on health and rural economy matters, so it is good to be able to link these two different aspects of policy together today. A healthy and balanced diet needs to lead to a healthy life, and as a nurse and clinical educator with over 30 years' experience caring for patients and now as an MSP caring for and supporting constituents, I am a huge proponent for social prescribing approaches to tackling and indeed preventing health issues such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, cancers and other diseases as the motion states. I support the Scottish Government's healthy weight plan, which will aim to bring on existing projects that are in place across different parts of Scotland to ensure that everyone can access them. One project is the Daily Mile, as John Scott has just mentioned. We have spoken about the Daily Mile many times in chamber previously, pioneered by Elaine Wiley, a Scottish headteacher in Stirland. The Scottish Government, as well as local authorities, including the Frees and Galloway Council in my south Scotland region, is now working to build the Daily Mile's community with schools, sports bodies and other supporters. I participated in the Daily Mile when my sister's wanes were echo-feckan primary school, and I am pleased that 57 out of the total of 63 schools, more than 90 per cent across from Frees and Galloway, are signed up to the Daily Mile. Another social prescribing, nutrition and weight loss initiative that I have been supporting is the Fixing Dad programme, which I have spoken about also in the chamber before. Fixing Dad involved Anthony and David Wittington and their family, helping their dad, Jeff, to lose over seven stone in weight—that is almost 45 kilos—by focusing on nutrition, cycling and family support and encouragement. I encourage everyone to look at Fixing Dad and I would welcome feedback from the Scottish Government about the merits and evidence from that. I am pleased that we have a similar and already established group called Our Path, coming to present at the diabetes cross-party group, which I co-convene with Dave Stewart and Brian Whittle. Decisive action needs to be taken to tackle the overall environment that makes it difficult to make the right food choices, the right nutrition choices for our kids. I was pleased that the Scottish Government published the Health, Fair, Future Scotland's diet and health weight delivery plan in July last year, following wide consultation with stakeholders that I also fed into. The plan has 67 actions and reiterated the ambition to have childhood obesity in Scotland by 2030. It has also committed to significantly reduced diet-related health inequalities, as well as acting to restrict the promotion of junk foods. The Scottish Government is investing an additional £42 million over five years to support weight management interventions for people with or at risk of type 2 diabetes, all of which is extremely welcome. While I do not have a lot of time left, I would like to highlight the importance of young people from both urban and rural areas, knowing the provenance and sourcing of the food they are eating and also having access to fresh local produce. The Royal Highland Education Trust aims to provide the opportunity for every child in Scotland to learn about food, farming and the countryside. It is achieved by farm visits to schools, classroom speakers and talks by volunteer farmers. Last week, I attended the RET event at the Wallace Mart and Castle Douglas, which had 150 kids attending so that they could see the provenance of the food that comes from FFERM to fork. I encourage the Scottish Government to continue to look at social prescribing, as well as valuing the importance of the Royal Highland Education Trust. I am happy to contribute to the issue of health eating and active lifestyle and the importance of health education for the wellbeing of Scots. I want to focus on health eating. Despite the opening contribution from Brian Whittle, I must say that most of what he suggests seems to me to be absolutely practical. Indeed, those are many things that have happened in the past. It does not feel tellably radical and I am quite surprised that he has taken to be quite so aggressive to other parties in his debate because he is suggesting something quite practical and sensible. However, if we only said the practical and sensible things and did not work out why people then did not do them, we would not be getting very far. I have to say to the Tories that those issues cannot be seen in a vacuum. Tories' economic and welfare policy have a great deal to answer for in impoverishing people, creating uncertainty as a daily reality for all too many people and bringing about greater inequality across our communities. We should be aware of the consequence of a UK Government economic strategy, which is based all too often on employment without job security, with flexibility that prevents people from applying their lives and, with at its core, an insecurity that, in itself, is a significant factor in creating ill health. If anyone has ever watched a delivery person arriving with a parcel at their door and running to the next place in the next place in the next place, they must know the impact that that is having on people's lives. If the Scottish Government is to be seen as serious in tackling inequality, it really must reassess its choice to target local councils for disproportionate cuts, given the potential role for local services and particularly schools around health education, or for fitness projects, for health eating projects and support for families who need a bit of help in order to address those questions. We have lost so much of that already, and I think that because there has not been an honest conversation in government about why local government budgets need to be protected. In my short contribution, I want to highlight the campaign by the Scottish Co-operative Party and the Co-operative Party across the United Kingdom, and I should declare an interest as a Labour and Co-operative MSP. The campaign for food justice, tackling food poverty locally and campaigning for a more strategic approach nationally brings together the practicalities that Brian Whittle talks about and the importance of understanding it in context. Figures tell us that 8 million people across the United Kingdom are having trouble putting food on the table and are, quote, food insecure. We know that this is a problem for all too many families in Scotland, too, and that is why we are calling on the Scottish Government to bring forward, in the good food nation bill, a right to food to be incorporated in the bill. That is a point that has been highlighted by other speakers, and I hope that the minister will respond to that. We know from co-operative party research that there have been over 150,000 cases of crisis grants issued by the Scottish welfare fund in the last available year's statistics, which, at least at part, refer to the need for food, and we also know about food banks. I have been privileged to see first hand the work of Glasgow South West and South East food banks run with dignity, compassion and meeting real need, not just for food, but for the support, advice and perhaps a bit of companionship that supports people in very challenging times. The indignity of having to go to food banks, I know, is addressed by those who run them, who try to make it as dignified and experienced as possible. However, we also all know that we do not want those food banks to exist and the volunteers themselves do not want them to exist, but while they do, I urge the Government to ensure that they are properly funded. I urge the Government at every level to come together to address the whole question of food and healthy lifestyle, not just for education but across the responsibilities of the Government. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I want to thank Brian Whittle for securing this debate. It is really important that people young and old are educated on healthy living and healthy eating as well. I want to concentrate on local initiatives in my particular area. Joanne Lamont mentioned areas in her area. It is from local that it grows. It is not just in schools, but in other areas. It grows in that respect. I want to mention some of the charitable organisations in my area that have improved the lives of so many people in the area, such as the Woodlands community trust, lasting benefits for the area and people who live, work and study in the Kelvin constituency. It helps local residents and businesses to contribute to the economic improvement of woodland areas. It promotes the health and wellbeing of local people. It does learning and education within the community and the woodlands. A number of the projects that it has are the Woodlands community cafe. Each year, 50 households grow their own fruit, vegetables and herbs in the gardens that raise beds. Dozens of local people maintain and improve the gardens through twice the garden volunteering. It is open to visitors. You do not have to have a raised bed in order to volunteer. It also has the Woodlands community cafe, which opened in 2014. Since then, it has provided a space where 70 to 80 local people make on a Monday evening, and they share a healthy, home-cooked meal and get to know others in their community. The cafe is running on a pay-as-you-can basis. It is free for people who are on low incomes. It has been fantastically successful in helping to reduce isolations in that particular area, woodlands in my constituency. It also supports people who go through difficult times. New visitors receive a very warm welcome and enjoy the cookery and the wellbeing of the workshops throughout the year. The food that is vegetarian is also tasty and nutritious and is grown in their own community garden. That is fantastic. They also run cookery workshops in their own community garden. The Children's Wood and North Calvary Medals is a community-led organisation that provides safe open spaces for children and members of the local community to access nursery schools and primary schools. They are able to access the medals, they have storytelling, they have exercises, and they have healthy eating activities. It is fantastic. Apart from the fact that it is healthy eating and educational, being outside is really important. Being outside in the fresh air, even if it is just to play, do whatever it is, can reduce anxiety and increase self-esteem within children's attention. Brian Whittle mentioned that and adults also benefit from it. One of the ones that has been on-going for a long time is the Annex Healthy Living Centre. It has worked for the local community in the Glasgow party area. It delivers well-being initiatives at the healthy living centre base in 2018. Johann Lamont mentioned the fact that it receives money from NHS and local government. It entered into a community health and care partnership, and it delivered healthy eating initiatives in four neighbourhoods across the west of Glasgow. During that time, it worked very closely to ensure that residents were able to access programmes that met their needs of eating. It built up support in those areas, and it also got additional funding from Glasgow community planning, which is from Glasgow city council, and it delivered weekly health clubs across central Glasgow, nutrition and health eating courses, and it promoted healthy living as well. One of the new kids on the block is G-throw G3 growers. It is a community garden. It is in Breakin street, which is in between a couple of tenements. It used to be a dumping site at one particular point, but now it has five large-raised beds. It has two greenhouses, a tool shed, and a mini orchard. It grows and shares all of its produce collectively with members' homes. I think that is a way forward. If it is just the very last minute, we should be looking at the health benefits of water. Peter Chapman, followed by George Adam, could you aim for three and a half minutes, please? Thank you, Deputy Secretary. I must register an interest as a partner in the farming business. Having spent my whole life growing up on and then working on my farm, producing high-quality crops and meat, and being active all day, I appreciate the necessity for a healthy diet and a healthy fit body. Eating good healthy food was my fuel for long days on the farm. However, since becoming an MSP and sitting in an office three days a week, I have seen firsthand how a change in lifestyle can affect weight, a fly cup and a fancy piece each afternoon is still appealing, but now I have to make the choice not to. That is what this debate is all about. Choices and teaching our future generations to make the right choices with their diet, their exercise regime and, ultimately, their weight. People must take responsibility for their own health choices. We have a crisis in Scotland with 65 per cent of the population classed as overweight and 29 per cent of those obese. Obesity is leading to a type 2 diabetes crisis, which is hitting hard and costing our NHS huge and increasing amounts of money. That is so disappointing in a country with such a rich history of quality food. Our farmers work tirelessly to produce the best food produced to the highest standards. Our fishermen brave dangerous seas to bring us a variety of fresh wholesome fish and our biggest food export is salmon. We have some of the highest animal welfare standards in the world and some of the best farmers. Good local food is abundantly available. It should be obvious that we should shop locally and eat healthily and fresh local produce should take precedence over imports in food procurement for our schools, hospitals and prisons. I was impressed to see the development that Aberdeenshire Council has made for the provision of school meals and the engagement that parents can have with their kids about what they eat and why. Aberdeenshire Council uses an online payment system, enabling parents to top up their kids' accounts, while also seeing an online menu for the week ahead. That allows parents to sit down and talk to their child about what option to pick that day. That is a great opportunity for parents and children to consider healthier choices. Aberdeenshire Council's school catering service currently holds the Soil Association Bronze Food for Life Catering Award. That means that meals contain no undesirable food additives or hydrogenated fats. 75 per cent of dishes are freshly prepared. Meat is from farms that satisfy UK welfare standards. Eggs are from cage-free hens. Minus menus are seasonal and training is provided for all catering staff. That is all good. However, there are still improvements to be made. FOI figures last year showed that Scotland Excel, the shared national procurement service, spends just 16 per cent of its budget for school food on food sourced in Scotland. That is a shocking figure that must improve quickly. Why on earth are we important chicken from Thailand to feed our school kids? In Aberdeenshire, that is slightly higher, with 26 per cent of its spend on food that is originating in Scotland. However, it is still a long way to go. I appreciate what has been said across the chamber today. We need to educate our youth about an active and healthy lifestyle. That education can come in many forms through PE lessons, cooking lessons, hearty school meals, using local produce and, most importantly, children learning that good, healthy home-produced food is good for them both physically and mentally. George Adam, no more than three and a half minutes please. The last speaker in the open debate. I am pleased to speak in this debate. This is a very important issue, and we must all come together to tackle it. Frequently, we are divided in this chamber, especially right now, during these difficult times. However, I think that we can all agree that health and happiness of our children and, for some of us, our grandchildren must be a primary concern. Obesity is a serious public health issue that cannot be ignored, but Scotland's vision is simple—to be part of a country where everyone eats well and we are all a healthy weight. It is my belief, Presiding Officer, that many young people are currently aware of the need for healthy eating and the choices that they have. It is a work in progress, but it is so much better than when I was younger and when my own children were younger as well, but it is something that we must show leadership and continue with as well. As is always the case, Presiding Officer, I will bring up what is happening in my constituency. There are many examples of education programmes in Paisley that have been successful. One, in particular, was one that the Renfrewshire Council did, which promoted healthy choices and healthy affordable eating for families, in effect with the offer that they showed the families the options that they had to buy affordable healthy food. It was really quite good, because it led in many cases to families sitting down at the table and having dinner with one another, which they never had done beforehand. There is also a programme that I have brought up before, in which Sipmurn F3 has included training fathers from various backgrounds in creating and cooking a healthy dinner for families at the Sipmurn Corporate Hospitality unit. That is an example of that. You could do that programme elsewhere, but you are more likely to get that core group doing it at the football club and get them to do it there. The children would go out and play five-a-side football and dad would learn to cook a healthy meal and all sit down and have that meal. However, schools in Renfrewshire are also getting on with healthy school meals. People have their say in hearty live school menu initiative in Renfrewshire, and young people are having their say on the food on their plates by helping to develop healthier high school menus. Healthy food choices are now more prominently displayed at serving areas, with catering staff encouraged to nudge pupils to make healthier choices. Young health ambassadors were responsible for finding out the nutritional facts of different foods and creating nutritional theme displays in the canteen that make the fellow pupils aware of the health benefits of the food in front of them. Similar work has been carried out in all the high schools in Renfrewshire and has been offered in some of the kitchens. So much so, the Renfrewshire Council is also working in partnership with West College Scotland to deliver a besbote cooking skills training course that is open to all catering staff and designed around the school menu. As a nation, we consume too much food and drink that has little or no nutritional benefit, which contributes high calories or salt to our diet. We are inundated with the emptied every day by junk food promotions and the marketing of unhealthy food, such as multi-bias to encourage overconsumption. That can lead to diabetes, heart disease, certain types of cancer and other illnesses, putting immense pressure on our NHS and our vital public services and on our economy. We must all do what we can to ensure that our children's health and they have accessible to food remains at the top of our agenda. It is important for all of us to get together, particularly those of us who are of a certain age and should know better. We move to the closing speeches. David Stewart, up to four minutes, please. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I think that this has been an excellent debate with well-argued and informative speeches from across the chamber. The Labour amendment emphasised the bigger picture issues, such as the role, health and equality and austerity play in creating food insecurity, and I should at this point have declared by membership of the Scottish Co-op party, Presiding Officer. The key element in this debate echoed by a succession of speakers is that nutrition plays a crucial role in fighting head-on health, the growing cost of the preventable health agenda, such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and many types of cancer. As was raised by many MSPs in this debate, such as the Minister Joe Fitzpatrick, Mark Ruskell, Alex Cole-Hamilton, John Scott, Emma Harper, Johann Lamont and George Adam, over a quarter of adults in Scotland are obese. That increases the risk of individuals developing many potentially serious health conditions. Of course, we all know that the risk of obesity varies across Scotland, where we have seen 21 per cent of women living in affluent areas compared with 37 per cent of those in disadvantaged areas. I thought that that was a number of excellent points in the debate, although I did not agree with all the ground fiddles earlier comments. He made some sense on the locally sourced food. He made an interesting point that 70 per cent of school meals failed nutrition standards. Of course, a very important point is that there is a link between nutrition and the management of mental health. The minister made a point that I would agree with about the importance of seeing Scotland as a place where we eat well and have healthy weight, the role and prevention of ill health and, of course, how we need to have a joined-up approach with informed, healthier choices. Mark Ruskell made a strong point about the right to food, something that I echoed in my own statement through the Good Food Nation Act. There is a worrying problem about the decline in green spaces and the very important link between child poverty and child health. Alex Cole-Hamilton adopted a charlion role, if I can pronounce it, in talking about digging for victory about the costs of obesity and made some very important points about what we need to develop independent living, particularly in our schools. John Scott, as a very experienced farmer, made some very good points about his earlier campaign, about buy local and source locally, which is a point that I would strongly agree about, and how the magic pill that we have is exercise, one that we should be using a lot more. I was not aware of the earlier Scottish diet plan, which I think was extremely important to emphasise. Emma Harper made some excellent points. I would particularly share her point about the fixing dad presentation, which I was also at the meeting, which is for those who have not followed is effectively aware of not quite curing, but perhaps reducing type 2 diabetes, the very important role of social prescribing and vitally important to have a balanced diet. My colleague Johann Lamont made excellent points about healthy eating and how we can all talk about the practical and sensible. The difficulty is how we enact it on the grounds. Of course, I echoed the point about the impacts of the UK economic policy and again stressed the importance of the Scottish Co-op campaign for food justice. In a few seconds remaining, my belief is that health inequality is at the root of this debate and that poverty, social deprivation and social inequality are significant contributors to being overweight and that it is the least well-off who are most at risk. The key for me is why should your postcode determine your life expectancy and why should the right to food not be a basic human right? To conclude, as Martin Luther King has said, of all the forms of inequality, injustice and healthcare is the most shocking and the most inhumane. John Swinney, for up to five minutes please. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I welcome this opportunity to close this debate on behalf of the Government and to confirm to Brian Whittle, if he hadn't noticed, that there were in fact two education ministers on the front bench and two health ministers on the front bench for the entirety of the debate. I accept the Government's role, the significant role of the Government in taking forward the debate on health education and that is why the issues around health and nutrition are central to the broad general education as part of curriculum for excellence. They are recognising the importance of young people having access to at every stage of their learning opportunities from the early level that commences within early learning childcare right through their school education to have an understanding of the relationship between food and health and the importance of making positive dietary choices and positive choices about their own wellbeing as part of their decisions about their lives and as part of their education. There is, of course, an extra dimension to this, which is the role of wider players within our society, in particular our communities. I want to commend my colleague Sandra White on a beautiful speech that set out the work of the Woodlands community trust, which was a very vivid example of what community organisations can do to marshal a spirit of goodwill and very constructive activity at local level to make a profound difference in the benefits that Sandra White cited of social interaction, of the role of the community garden, of the health and the exercise regimes associated with all of that, was, I thought, a very powerful illustration of the fact that there are players within our society outwith Government who can contribute significantly to this debate and I welcome that. I thought that Johann Lamont made a very fair point in her contribution about the fact that the Conservative arguments in this debate had essentially glided past the social and economic impact of austerity and the choices that that inflicts on individuals were vividly illustrated by Johann Lamont and are no doubt about to be answered by Brian Whittle. My whole point is that in all of this, the education system is a system that we have a great impact on and that is the place that we should be focusing the biggest intervention on and the ability for food and going on. That is the point that I was trying to make. That is where I started my speech and accepted that responsibility with the centrality of curriculum for excellence. If we are going to have a complete debate about those issues, we have to reflect on the fact that there are wider implications of people's lives, most of which come from the austerity agenda that Mr Whittle spectacularly ignored in all of his contribution to the Parliament today. John Scott normally makes— Excuse me, Mr Swinney. Could we stop with the private arguments, please? Take them outside if you wish. John Scott normally makes well-informed contributions to the debates in Parliament, but I felt that he was pretty wider than the mark today. Mr Scott seemed to ignore in his attack on the fact that young people are not as active as they should be. He ignored the fact that the percentage of school pupils meeting the commitment to two hours of two periods of PE per week has risen from 10 per cent in 2004-5 to 99 per cent in 2018. He also managed to ignore the fact that almost 70 per cent of children participate in sport each week, which is a very encouraging level of participation. I simply cite those points to put a bit more balance into the debate. Of course, I will do that. John Scott. In that case, why is obesity a growing crisis? Why is it to the fact that many young people will die before their parents because of type 2 diabetes? That is also an acknowledged fact. What is the answer? Exercise is certainly part of the answer, Mr Swinney. Part of the answer is having a complete debate about those issues. I am simply citing that there is good evidence to show that there is good active participation in sport within Scotland, and we should celebrate that. There is good active participation in our schools, and we should celebrate that, which we did not hear from the Conservatives in the debate this afternoon in Parliament today. A whole host of things come together. The way in which the Government is expanding early learning and childcare, the way in which we entrench the ideas and issues around food education in curriculum for excellence are all central to ensuring that we support the taking forward of a healthy diet and a healthy exercise regime by young people in Scotland. Let me close with just one other statistic, which is to say that, in the past 10 years, there has been a 41 per cent increase in the Scottish products being included in school contracts for school meals. There is a 41 per cent increase in that level of participation, which is a good start by the Scottish Government. We want to go further, we want to encourage more, and that is exactly what the Government is going to do in its forward agenda. I call Liz Smith to wind up the debate. Six minutes will take us to decision time, please. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I begin my remarks with reference to countryside learning conference, which took place a couple of weeks ago, and I had the privilege to speak at that. One of the interesting groups there, Sandra White, was the Woodland Communities Trust, and I pay tribute to what they were doing. That conference was primarily about what we have to do to increase collaboration across all the groups that are involved in outdoor learning, but a great deal of that focus on that day was about the wellbeing of our young people and how the rural communities are so crucial in that respect. I was struck very much, apart from all the educational opportunities that we were debating, that food and nutrition were the recurring themes for the whole conference. That is something that I think is just so important. Indeed, Mr Alex Cole-Hamilton, that is exactly the reason why we picked up this topic for that debate, because that is so important when it comes to what we are doing. I am glad to hear people like George Adam supporting that. Several speakers have obviously talked about a lot of different local initiatives, but I want to emphasise my remarks on involving young people in the decision making. In the 2007-11 Parliament, the then education committee spent a huge amount of time looking at the issue of free school meals. Apart from the committee taking its own evidence, it looked at the evidence that had been presented elsewhere, including from many of the deprived communities. That included a project in Hull, which was cited as a project that had had a very significant involvement of young people in making the decisions. That included when it came to the school menus, pupils, parents and teachers were all involved in the creation of the menus and given opportunities to participate in making and serving some of the food. That Eat Well, Do Well project also had a lot of lessons about raising attainment, behaviour and concentration. I think that there is a lot to be said for initiatives that do just that. My colleague Brian Whittle referred in his remarks to the Mental Health Foundation's assertion that one of the most obvious yet under-recognised factors in the development of mental health is nutrition, and I agree with that. There is a growing body of evidence that indicates that nutrition plays a really key role in the prevention of mental health problems, and that is surely an important message in an age where the concerns over mental wellbeing have such prominence, and rightly so. Of course, we know from our own evidence in this place that the earliest years are absolutely vital. In fact, Minister 2 is absolutely correct in saying that those should be the focus of our attention, because those are ages before children would be in a position to know what is good for them. As the minister rightly said in his contribution, it is the education of parents and of all those who are caring for our youngest children that matters so much, whether that is in nurseries or across childcare and health visitors, because their input to that could hardly be more important. Several speakers have flagged up the Scottish Government's own Scottish Health Survey, released in September last year, which showed the deeply worrying statistics. I am not going to rehearse the numbers that members have spoken about, but I find it particularly worrying that as few as 15 per cent of young people are getting their recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, and that the recent statistics from Food Standards Scotland are showing that Scots are still eating as much sugar as they were eight years ago, those statistics could hardly be more damming. It shouldn't just be all about cost. David Stewart made an important point about that. I would challenge anybody to say that healthy food has to be expensive—it doesn't. We need to change the culture and educate people to understand that and to take advantage of the absolute richness of Scotland's local produce. That is in an age where, obviously, the buying of convenience foods is perhaps increasingly easy, so I don't doubt the extent of that challenge, but we have a big job to do to ensure that we can eat healthily and inexpensively. The Scottish Conservative healthy lifestyle strategy, which was released last year, concentrated very much on the cross-portfolio approach. I recognise that there have been ministers in the chamber from different portfolios. It is the joining together and collaboration that many members have spoken about. It is that overall strategy that we need to concentrate on. I don't think that there is a particular political divide there, but I think that it is something that we very much need to focus on. Can I bring my remarks to a close in the last minute about some of the issues that we have taken on board at the cross-party group on sport? Sport and physical fitness is all part of that same issue. It has been put to us by many of the evidence sessions that we have had on the cross-party group that the availability of sports facilities is something that we have to look at, which is why, in this party, we have been recommending a comprehensive analysis of when school facilities are available and whether we can make better use of those facilities at weekends and during holiday times. I hope that it is not too late for the Scottish Government to consider what the possible impact might be of all of this, given some of the recommendations within the Barclay report. There has also been much debate about the access, particularly for our young children, to a PE specialist, particularly in an age in which teacher shortages have been exposed to the fool, because those PE specialists can have a huge influence on our young people and their activity and physical exercise. A third thing that has come to that cross-party group is the need to make our leisure centres much more family friendly, both in terms of the experience of being in that leisure centre and in terms of the charges for entry. I see that my time is up. Nobody is saying that those answers are easy, but I think that it is very important to have this debate to ensure that we are not frightened to bring up some of the issues that may be the most challenging, so that we can work collaboratively to deal with them. Thank you very much. That concludes our debate on health education. We will move on to the next item of business, which is consideration of business motion 16733, in the name of Graeme Dey, on behalf of the bureau setting out a business programme. Could I call on Graeme Dey to move the motion? Move, Presiding Officer. Thank you very much. And no-one is asked to speak against the motion. The question, therefore, is that motion 16733 be agreed. Are we all agreed? We are agreed. The next item is consideration of six parliamentary bureau motions. Could I ask Graeme Dey, on behalf of the bureau, to move motions 16734 and 16735 on deadlines for lodging questions, 16736 on designation of a lead committee and 16737 to 16739 on approval of SSIs? Move, Presiding Officer. Thank you very much. We turn now to decision time. The first question this evening is that amendment 16702.3, in the name of Gene Freeman, which seeks to amend motion 16702, in the name of Miles Briggs, on looking after those who look after us, be agreed. Are we all agreed? We're not agreed. We'll move to a vote. Members may cast their votes now. The result of the vote on amendment number 16702.3, in the name of Gene Freeman, is yes, 58, no, 52. There were six abstentions, and the amendment is therefore agreed. The next question is that amendment 16702.1, in the name of Monica Lennon, which seeks to amend motion 16702, in the name of Miles Briggs, on looking after those who look after us, be agreed. Are we all agreed? We are agreed. The next question is that motion 16702, in the name of Miles Briggs, as amended, be agreed. Are we all agreed? Yes. We're not agreed. We'll move to a vote. Members may cast their votes now. The result of the vote on motion 16702, in the name of Miles Briggs, as amended, is yes, 87, no, 28. There were no abstentions, the motion as amended, is therefore agreed. The next question is that amendment 1671.2, in the name of John Swinney, which seeks to amend motion 1671.0, in the name of Brian Whittle, on health education, be agreed. Are we all agreed? Yes. We're not agreed. We'll move to a vote. Members may cast their votes now. Although someone suggested that they may have voted no, they didn't. It was unanimous, and the amendment is agreed. I'll tell them that I may need to vote it. The result of the vote on amendment 1671.0.2, in the name of John Swinney, is yes, 115. There were no votes against it and there were no abstentions. It has been agreed. The next question is that amendment 1671.0.1, in the name of David Stewart, which seeks to amend the motion in the name of Brian Whittle, be agreed. Are we all agreed? No. We're not agreed this time. We'll move to a vote. Members may cast their votes now. The result of the vote on amendment 1671.1, in the name of David Stewart, is yes, 31. No, 85. There were no abstentions. The amendment is therefore not agreed. The next question is that motion 1671.0, in the name of Brian Whittle, as amended on health education, be agreed. Are we all agreed? Yes. We are agreed. I propose to ask a single question on six parliamentary bureau motions. Does any member object? No one objects. The question is that motions 1673.4 to 1673.9, in the name of Graham Day, on behalf of the parliamentary bureau, be agreed. Are we all agreed? Yes. We are agreed. Now that concludes decision time, but before we move to members' business, I wanted to let members know about Parliament's plans to meet over the recess. The parliamentary bureau has been considering this matter in the last few days and considering Parliament's response in the event of the United Kingdom, leaving the European Union on Friday 12 April without a negotiated deal. I can confirm that my intention is to recall Parliament next week to meet at 1 pm on Thursday 11 April, in the circumstances that the UK is due to leave the EU without a deal on the following day. I indicated last week that I would try and give members at least two days' notice of the decision whether or not to recall. This is clearly an on-going developing situation and I may therefore not be in a position to confirm a recall to members until after decisions are taken at the EU summit on Wednesday 10 April. The decision to recall or not will be communicated to you through the Parliament's alert system and, of course, your business managers will keep you updated. The parliamentary business team is also happy to advise members throughout the week. On that note, we will now move to members' business.