 Hyde fydd yn ymddangos i sydd yn cyffreithio siw cancerau a gwstraddau peir. Ffyniadodd, ddigwydd ar gyfer y cyfregorau a'i cyfregorau, nid ddalfolio ei ysgrifeth mewn i'w gydagoddiadau i gyfrifioiaid rhai o boblau cyfresidau? Aelistyr Alun. Aelistyr yn cyffririo cyfregorau o basirio cyfregorau mewn i'w cyfrifioiaid, a rydych chi i'n weithaf, ac yn gweithiwch i'n hefyd gan unrhyw rhan o'r organisations on Scotland's current and future needs. In November, we set out the evidence about the importance of migration to Scotland in our submission to the Migration Advisory Committee. We followed the earlier this year with a discussion paper on Scotland's population growth and migration policy, showing how a tailored approach to migration for Scotland with new powers for the Scottish Parliament could work. The Scottish Government shares the concerns of those bodies about the risks of both the UK leaving the EU and the hostile environment immigration policy pursued by the UK Government. The development of both the MAC submission and our discussion paper involved close engagement with key stakeholders in Scotland, and we are continuing to engage with partners to build consensus across the political spectrum and wider civic society. John Fennie. I thank the minister for that detail and a very welcome response. The minister will be aware—indeed, it is in his constituency—of a Channel 4 news report recently about the challenges that are connected with the fishing industry in Barra. We also have the situation of the Canadian teacher refused a visa by the Home Office, threatening the provision of Gallic Media and Education on Mull. The NHS and tourism are important sectors, and we want to welcome people to support our communities. The Tory's hostile environment policy simply does not help Scotland at all. Will the minister consider reconvening the cross-party ministerial working group, which, in the last session, secured support on a cross-party basis to reinstate the post-study visa and broaden its remit to address the matter? A couple of the sensible issues that the member mentions on the issue of the teacher who was seeking to work in Argyll and Bute and was denied the opportunity to do so. One of the problems behind that and other examples of its kind are that, at the moment, the sixth month in a row where the UK Government has put a cap on the number of visas for people coming in to do just those kinds of jobs, we are now seeing no jobs being made available for people below a £50,000 a year salary. That is why teachers and others have fallen into that situation. On fishing, the member will be very aware that fishing has not featured highly in the UK Government's approach to Brexit talks and has not been high on their list of priorities with consequences for everyone. On cross-party working, I am very happy to work with the member and others across the spectrum to ensure that we address those and other issues around Brexit. To ask the Scottish Government what powers it has to enact a Crown Use Licence to allow the production of biosimilar versions of the breast cancer treatment per jeta and drugs for other conditions. The Scottish Government has the power to apply for our Crown Use Licence, but we do not consider that invoking that power would provide a quick solution to providing medicine for patients in Scotland. That is because an alternative manufacturer would have to go through a lengthy process of obtaining regulatory approval from either the European Medicine Agency or the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency before it could make a submission to the Scottish Medicines Consortium. The manufacturer of per jeta Rosh has held discussions with NHS National Procurement and I expect that dialogue to continue in order that Rosh can bring forward a new submission to the SMC for their consideration. The campaign body just treatment state in their briefing on this issue that the key driver of the price is the patent-backed monopoly. Breast cancer patients are urging us all to ensure that they can access the treatment that they need. I am delighted to hear that the manufacturers of per jeta are in discussion. They need to make an urgent resubmission at a reduced price to the SMC, but we should not rule out any legal mechanism or procurement possibility that would help those patients. In Italy, just the prospect of a compulsory licence being enacted helps to reduce the price of a hepatitis C medicine. What lessons is the Scottish Government learning from other countries regarding access to medicine and drug prices? Of course, we will always look at learning lessons from other countries, but as I laid out to Alison Johnstone, the process that would be required is not a straightforward one, and she makes the point about patients getting access to the treatment that they need as quickly as possible. As I said in my initial answer, Rosh is in discussion with NHS National Procurement and that dialogue continues. I would urge them to bring forward a new submission to the SMC for their consideration. Obviously, the timing of that is with the company, but I would urge them to do that as quickly as possible. Indeed, Alison Johnstone is right that that should be at a fair price. That is what we would expect from any pharmaceutical company bringing forward a product, and we hope that they will do that as quickly as possible. The cabinet secretary mentioned that NHS National Procurement and the manufacturer of Rosh are in a discussion at this moment. Can she say when the decision on that offer will be due to ministers and to the SMC? Of course, ministers do not have any involvement in the process for good reason. We have a process that is established under the Scottish Medicines Consortium that is independent of ministers, and that is quite right. Of course, it is important that all companies follow that process. However, the role of NHS National Procurement has been to help to have that discussion in order to ensure that the submission—first of all, that the company is encouraged to make a submission—is as good a submission as it can possibly be, but it requires to go to the SMC. Again, as I said to Alison Johnstone, I would urge them to do that as quickly as possible, but to do that with a fair price offer. Andy Leighton Smith Given the number of women suffering from anteractive thyroid to have to buy desiccated thyroid hormone on the internet from other countries in order to simply function in their day-to-day lives and the price of the alternative possibility of T3, would the minister consider exploring the possibility of the Scottish Government enacting a crown-use licence to allow the production of desiccated thyroid hormone in Scotland? As I have written to Elaine Smith on a number of occasions about this particular issue, obviously the clinical need of the patient is important and, obviously, clinicians do have the opportunity to use other medicines where the patient would not be clinically appropriate for the normal medicine that would be used for thyroid problems. Again, I am happy to write to Elaine Smith on that issue in more detail, but at the core of this is that we have a system that has been reformed on a number of occasions. The Montgomery recommendations are being implemented now, which will make sure that the Scottish system for the approval of medicines continues to be robust and fair. To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making towards delivering the carers allowance supplement. Carers allowance supplement is a 13 per cent increase to carers allowance to be upgraded in line with inflation in future years. The overall investment of more than 30 million a year benefits 70,000 carers. We are on track to make the first of the six-monthly payments later this summer, despite the Department of Work and Pensions delay in providing us with the full set of data agreed for the delivery of the supplement. It is clearly of concern that the UK Government is not providing all the information that the Scottish Government needs for this supplement. Does the minister think that the UK Government is putting Scotland's needs at the bottom of their to-do list? I thank the member for the supplementary. As members across this chamber, I hope by now realise and understand that we are entirely reliant on the DWP to provide the data we need. This is basic data, name, address, national insurance number, bank account details, for all of the 11 benefits that will be devolved. In the case of this supplement, we agreed the data requirements with the DWP on 9 March. Ten days later, they advised us that there were data sets in that agreement that they could not provide. This is the third time, since March, that this has happened with the DWP. Firstly, their summary announcement of a one-year delay in the agreement to abolish bedroom tax at source and provide us with the delivery mechanism to do that. Next, the four-month delay in providing us with the computer code that is necessary to deliver on the case management system, and now that. The Scottish Government, as Audit Scotland recognises, remains on track, but we absolutely need the DWP to step up to the pace. What that requires, First Minister, is for the Secretary of State, Esther McVeigh, to show the leadership that this Government shows in making sure that the delivery of those devolved benefits happens on time to the right people and in the right way. Mark Griffin, I think that it is disappointing that the Secretary of State is not living up to the spirit of her comments that she made at the recent Social Security Committee, but can I ask the minister to say if the DWP failed to provide full data that if a carer presents themselves and evidence that they receive carers allowance to the new agency, that the agency will then be in a position to pay them the new supplement? I think that Mr Griffin for that question is an important one. I would say before I answer it in full that it is of course disappointing and I urge Mr Griffin to work with my colleagues in Westminster to continue to press at Westminster that Secretary of State to deliver on the assurances that we have repeatedly had from her and from her four predecessors to honour the devolution settlement and make sure that we work co-operatively together. Officials do a very good job, but we need political leadership in terms of those who may be affected by the absence of these data sets. We are working very closely with the carers organisations involved to ensure that they help us to reach all of those who have that entitlement. We will work very carefully to make sure that all carers understand what they are entitled to and that if they do not receive that from us in that first six-monthly payment, that they contact us and when they do, we will most certainly honour that commitment. Where that does not happen in that they do not know or they have not been reached by our information and do not appreciate that they are due that money, then in the second six-monthly payment we will backdate that to ensure that they receive the full years amount along with all the other carers in Scotland. To ask the Scottish Government what support it provides to ambulance services. As one of our national NHS boards, the Scottish Government provides governance and annual funding to the Scottish Ambulance Service to provide high-quality emergency healthcare to the people of Scotland. We have invested almost £900 million in the ambulance service over the last four years and are committed to supporting the service in recruiting and training 1,000 new paramedics to work in the community by 2021. Can I thank my fellow member Liam McArthur on bringing his motion to Parliament supporting a second charity air ambulance to be based in Aberdeen? Will the minister support the press and journals campaign, which is looking to assist the charity to achieve their aims in order to benefit the whole of the north of Scotland? I say that Scotland's charity air ambulance carries out fantastic work throughout Scotland, helping to save and improve lives every day. A second helicopter will allow the SCAA to further support the Scottish Ambulance Service in saving even more lives. That will be particularly helpful in the more remote and rural areas of Scotland. It will also be extremely valuable in support of the Scottish trauma network vision and our plans to take care to the patients. The answer is yes. To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the inspectorate of prosecution in Scotland's recent report on victims' right to review and complaints handling and feedback. The victims' right to review gives victims a right to request a review of decisions not to initiate or to discontinue prosecutions. I welcome the inspectorate of prosecution's report, which recognises that the VRR process, the victims' right to review process, is a robust one. The inspectorate has made 11 recommendations that echo work that the Crown Office and Procurate Fiscal Service has been undertaking internally on the victims' right to review. I have accepted all those recommendations. On complaints handling, the report recognises a more user-friendly complaints handling process and improvements in the quality of the services' responses following the inspectorate's 2015 report on complaints handling. The inspectorate has rated the services' response to their 15 previous recommendations on complaints handling as 10 achieved, three in progress, with two outstanding. Those two recommendations are being taken forward by the Crown Office and Procurate Fiscal Service Improvement Board. Gordon Lindhurst. I thank the Lord Advocate for that answer. The report was, as he will know, critical of Crown Office for its failure to notify victims of decisions not to prosecute and describe the cox approach to notifying decisions as being, and I quote, less inclusive than in other parts of the UK where all victims are usually notified. Does his commitment to implement the recommendations today mean that the rules will be changed so that victims are always notified when cases are not prosecuted or will victims continue to be left in the dark? Lord Advocate. Proactive notification occurs in all solemn cases and in all summary cases in the services via remit and in other summary cases. In other summary cases, the decision is not proactively notified but will be advised to victims or their representatives on inquiry. The inspectorate's recommendation was that the service should work towards a system of notifying all victims of decisions not to prosecute, whether through the use of IT solutions or otherwise, and I have accepted that recommendation. The service will now explore possible approaches to the notification of all victims of decisions not to prosecute, including possible IT solutions. To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to build residential accommodation at the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service National Training Centre at Camberslang. Minister Annabelle Ewing. Decisions on such issues are of course operational matters for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. I understand that in fact there is no current business case for the development of residential accommodation at the national training centre in Camberslang. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service approach is rather to invest in training facilities around Scotland to enable firefighters to be trained nearer to home, reducing therefore the requirement for travel and overnight stays at Camberslang or other locations. Michelle Ballantyne. Thank you for that. In March 2015, the SFRS closed the Scottish Fire Services College at Gullan, moving training to Camberslang in order to save £4.8 million per annum. Can the minister advise me if she believes that the lack of accommodation at Camberslang centre and the resultant use of hotels to house trainees has delivered the expected savings or does she share my concern that annual running costs may now exceed the amount that it would have cost to keep the Gullan Fire Services College open? The member may be interested to note that in fact there is currently a major building project under way at Newbridge in Edinburgh to provide enhanced training facilities in the east delivery area and in next year another major construction project at Port Leithan in Aberdeen will provide enhanced training facilities in the north delivery area. The member will be aware therefore that a number of investments are indeed being made in training closer to where firefighters are. The service has also just launched a new training unit at Kirkwall airport in Orkney. As I said in my first answer, I see that Jackson Carlaw is laughing, but for the members of Liam McArthur's constituency that would probably be quite a good thing. Finally, I would say—well, yes, Evan Brown Gullan is not exactly that far apart—to the chair, please, to the chair. Finally, I would say, Presiding Officer, that, as I said in my first answer, the focus is on investment facilities, training facilities around Scotland and therefore the business case for any particular accommodation at Cambuslank simply does not represent value for money. Of course, if the member is concerned about resources for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, perhaps she would join me in calling on her UK Government to pay back the £50 million in vat that the UK Government has deprived front-line firefighters of over the last five years. To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures the local community of Cambuslank benefit from the Attendees Act and the location of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service national training centre? I can say to the member that the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, in line with the Scottish Minister's expectations, considers the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises and the inclusion of community benefits within all of its procurement exercises. Of course, with the national training centre being situated at Cambuslank, that is supported by various local businesses, for example, in providing catering to the many excellent events and conferences that take place in Cambuslank. The member can be assured that the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service understands the need to ensure that the local community benefits from the national training centre being in Cambuslank.