 Os y mae'n gweld i'ch gweithio, o'r d象 licence, os yw'r ddatblygu cymaint ond mae Tynimentos 1378 yn friedig Jeremy Balfour yn agarffyddio beth deall y llifonau kilograma. Mae'r ddatblygu yn ddesgrun i'w ddysgu y byw yw'r ddatblygu. Nidwdych chi amgylcheddu gyda gynhyrch i ddarfodujod catal yma o'r gwneud. Ond, i ymlaen o'r llwyr, yn dda i'r prif Goodbye, rwyf cael peth yn amlwg, maen nhw'n cymaint mewn taffan, rydyn ni'n golygu golygu. Maen nhw'n dda i ddweud ymlaen i'r dda, yn y peth sy'n gweithio, o hynny o'r ddweud o eich gweith o'r barfwrn? A gennyn nhw'n cymaint mewn cyfrifiad eich gweithiau nifer gwell â ddogfaint. Tych yn wych oherwydd bod, ond cynnigolgymraith yn y llwyddiad yn i ddim yn gweld, mae hynny yn ystafell. Mae hynny y Prifysgol yn ddod y cyllid yn bilyd y bydd ein bod yn dweud y maen gydag. Felly, mae hyn yn ddahfence y bydd spesulys o icolwyr, lle o'u cyfle ffordd sy'n ei cyfle fyddir yn gweld cymryd y siwr. Mae yw'r iawn yn llawr melodych am y twilu fydd. Mae ymddechrau'r llwyr yn y sylchio, am ychydig gydig iawn yn ychydig i'r gweithio'r tylu yn fwyaf, ac mae'r gwaith yn digwydd o'r unigol a'r cyfnwysig. Mae'n gwneud y mynd o'r tylid a'r hei, ychydig, ymgyrch, ychydig, ymgyrch yn ymgyrch, ymgyrch yn ymgyrch, a'r ddweud. Felly dyma'r hynny, mae'n bwysig. I'm sometime asked what has been your achievement you're most proud of from being your time in Parliament. And I great joy of telling people that I was part of an effort that added a provision to the planning bill from the last parliament, stipulating that all new building projects of a certain size would have to have a change in place toilet within them. It seems like a small thing, but I do generally believe that it has made and will continue to make a massive difference to the lives of those with disabilities in Scotland. However, I should note, Deputy Presiding Officer, that it should not take legislation for business to install a change in place toilet. Other than that it being the right thing to do, there is hard evidence that it can increase customer engagement. The purple pound is a real and lucrative force that should never be overlooked. We as lawmakers have a duty to consider the inclusion of disabled people as a top priority. The funding of changing places should be a priority for us all, ensuring that Scotland is a place that is fully inclusive and fully open for everyone to participate in. Barlow's wife, Presiding Officer, I find it so disappointing that the Scottish Government has decided not to prioritise changing place toilets. Add to so many other issues, the SNP have talked a big game, promising support and funding for installation, but when it comes to delivery, they have let everyone down. During the 2021 programme for government, they pledged £10 million would go towards the installation of changing places in new buildings as well as refitting order premises. Two years on, and not a single penny of that money has been distributed despite a number of projects, some within my own region, being ready and waiting for the money. It was incredibly disappointing to hear the Minister, Marie Todd, answer a question on when my funding would finally be released by saying there were no plans even to begin the procession until 2025. Can I remind the Chamber that this was an SNP pledge in the 2021 programme for government? That means we will be waiting four years for funding that is desperately needed. I was hoping there might have been a change of heart from the SNP, and there might have been a provision of it in the budget statement last month, but it was completely absent. Deputy Presiding Officer, we are talking about a relatively small amount of money here in the great grand scheme of the Scottish budget, but it will make a massive real difference. It should also be put on record that at this point the UK Government has made a similar pledge of £30 million for England. That has been distributed, has been spent and disabled rights changed. Why is it that the big bad UK Government is able to follow through on its promises but the Scottish Government can't? Could it be that one Government values inclusion and the other doesn't? Deputy Presiding Officer, I am tired of rhetoric. I am tired of empty promises. I am tired of disabled people being promised the world by the SNP and delivered absolutely nothing. To be very clear, this is not just about a convenient option. It's about absolutely necessary equipment to allow those with profound disabilities and their families to participate in society. The portrayal of the Scottish Government in this way will not be forgotten by the disabled people from across Scotland. I started this speech by wishing everyone a happy new year. Minister, you can make everyone's new years better with disabilities by releasing this money now. I would implore you to reconsider when you are going to allow people to spend this money. We are waiting long enough. Disabled people deserve more. Thank you Deputy Presiding Officer. Thank you very much, Mr Balfour. We move to the open debate. A gentle reminder to those who are looking to participate who haven't yet done so, they need to press the request-to-speak buttons. I call first Evelyn Tweed to be followed by Alexander Stewart around four minutes. Thank you to Jeremy Balfour for bringing this important debate to the chamber. In this Parliament, we aspire to a Scotland that is fair, with dignity and respect for all at its heart. Equal access is needed for this to be a reality and for some, access requires specific facilities. If we are to remove barriers to ensure that everyone can live their lives to the fullest, we must provide those facilities. As we have heard, although standard accessible toilets are sufficient for many, they do not meet the needs of all disabled people. That creates a huge barrier for many people, their families and their carers, and prevents them from enjoying days out or making long journeys. Those who need these facilities face isolation or cutting their days out short, some even dehydrate themselves so that they don't need to use the bathroom. The alternatives are unsafe, unhygienic and undignified. For example, changing on bathroom floors or car boots. Changing Place toilets provide safe, spacious and clean facilities designed to meet the needs of people with more complex care needs. Those facilities remove a huge barrier and enable anyone to socialise, attend appointments or even go shopping, regardless of their disability. Unfortunately, changing places toilets provision is concentrated throughout the central belt and in areas with a higher population density. A black spot persists across the rural West Highlands, the size of Wales. Only one changing places toilet sits within this area in Fort William. Unfortunately, it has relatively restricted opening hours. There is not a single changing places toilet on the journey between Creef and Barra. This gap in provision means that those who need these facilities and live in rural areas may be less able to get out and about locally or undertake those long journeys. With a lot of specialist medical care centralised, those who need to travel for appointments face long, very difficult journeys. As a key point connecting much of the north and west of the central belt to Tyndrum in my constituency has been identified as a priority-like location for a changing places toilet. The small town on the A82 sees over 6,000 vehicles pass through every single day. It is a key point on many routes just south of where the A85 and the A82 split. The community in Tyndrum has done a magnificent amount of work in identifying a site. I'm grateful to Evelyn Tweed for giving away and I wonder whether she will join then because she's making a very impassioned and very convincing speech. Both she joined with Jeremy Balfour in calling on the Minister to announce immediate action to release this £10 million so that those facilities that she's rightly identified are indispensable can be delivered for the people that badly need them. Evelyn Tweed, can you give me the time back? Thank you Stephen Kerr for his intervention. I am going to ask the minister for some reassurances further on in the speech. The Tyndrum community has done an amazing amount of work. They've found a site, carried out a feasibility study and they are making necessary preparations. Now all they need to make this a reality is the funding. Like many, I was delighted when the Government announced the much needed £10 million funding that Jeremy Balfour alluded to in his opening. I am keen to see these funds put into action and I have saw regular updates from the minister. The public spending environment is challenging, I completely understand that. However, those facilities are absolutely vital. Delivering funds for changing places toilets in strategic locations like Tyndrum will make a huge impact. I call on the Government today to provide information on when those funds will be available. Changing places toilets make a dramatic difference to access, for example in Blair Drum in Safari Park, which is also in my constituency, where a facility was put in place in 2017. Equal access has been made a reality here and removed barriers for many disabled people and their families to feel included and enjoy a day out without concern. I look forward to seeing further progress being made in my constituency and beyond. I congratulate Jeremy Balfour on securing this very important and crucial subject. As a former member of the Citizens, Participation and Public Petitions Committee, I remember well the petition being brought forward by Seder Hayward on behalf of the Tyndrum infrastructure group, which has been mentioned already. The primary aim of the group was to build a changing place of toilets within the community. I share Seder and the group's collective frustration that the slow progress has taken place. I echo the sentiment in that petition when they said that there was currently a black hole the size of Wales in the north-west of Scotland where no facility existed. Indeed, the situation that has been stated does not seem representative of the kind of inclusive and accessible communities that Scotland aspires to be and have. Previously, about three years ago, I was liaising with a constituent regarding the potential of having a changing place toilet installed in Stirling station. However, at the time, ScotRail responded saying that the station was an aggregated building and they would look at it thoroughly and investigate it. However, they came back saying that insufficient resources were available at this time given the economic environment, so that did not progress. I was also aware of the situation in Dundee, which was highlighted in Dundee Cwria, where the Dundee was having issues with slow progress in that station. However, legislation was going through Holyrood that could have helped all types of these obstructions with promoting a more inclusive society when we are campaigning for such a facility. When Kevin Stewart, the then Minister for Local Government, Housing and Planning, said at the time that the Scottish Government remained committed to requiring changing places toilets in certain new developments and was happy to support the amendment to the planning bill that came through. The review of planning and building standards legislation to ensure that identification of those places was required. That was back in 2019. Just to see how far we have gone, it is that Jeremy Rennie remarked when he said in the opening of his speech that these changing facilities are not a luxury, they are a necessity and an essential necessity to individuals who require them. For a Government that often trumpets its commitment to a disabled population, it beggars belief that to see that they have taken their eye off the ball with reference to this issue and not only the last five years but the complete neglect of their own party's manifesto promise that they made. I echo the petition that came forward and I echo the comments that you have heard already today that the Scottish Government must ensure that that £10 million would be pledged and go forward. I urge them to do all that they can to ensure that there is no further delays because, as I say, individuals who need this and would aspire to have that, Scotland should not be in a position where it does not have facilities for individuals who want to travel and go around. In conclusion, the decisions that we take today are vitally important. The minister has an opportunity this afternoon and evening to talk about what is going to take place and to ensure that these individuals and these organisations are given the respect that they deserve to ensure that the commitment that was given is fulfilled and that those facilities are needed, not just now, but apparently across the whole of this country to ensure that people have the dignity that they wish and the respect that they are given. I wholeheartedly support the motion in Jeremy Balfour's name. Paul O'Kane, to be followed by Tess White, around four minutes, Mr O'Kane. Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer. As convener of the cross-party group on changing places toilets, I am delighted to be able to participate in this evening's debate. I would like to thank Jeremy Balfour, not just for securing this evening's debate by his motion, but also for the work that he does more widely with the CPG and indeed in the Parliament to keep these issues at the forefront, which I think is vitally important. The cross-party group was established in this Parliament to keep that focus on this very important issue, because we have already heard from the contributions in the chamber this evening about how important this issue is to people who rely on changing places toilets and their families and their carers. The group was largely inspired by those campaigners and those people who, through their lived experience, saw the patchy provision very often across Scotland. The thing that inspires me most when the cross-party group meets is being able to listen to the experiences that many people have, not just in terms of their everyday life and trying to ensure that they can attend hospital appointments or get to the different supports that they need. For families with young children who have complex needs, who want to live a life that is spontaneous, like everyone in this chamber would want to do, to be able to go on holiday, to be able to take day trips out, to be able to just go to the shops, for example. The lack of facilities is a real challenge to living that life with the spontaneity that everyone deserves in their everyday life. I want to pay tribute to some of the people in the cross-party group, particularly Angela Dulley, who has been a driving force of the group, the support that has been received through the Secretary for Angela via Pamys and to all of the individuals and organisations involved in coming together and pushing forward the issues. I never thought when I became a parliamentarian that I would spend time going to look at toilets or to look at the potential site of toilets, but that is something that I now do. I must say that I have become something of a geek in terms of what is required in a changing places toilet to make it a bona fide changing places toilet. I have been delighted to see many community organisations and local authorities take the active steps that they need in order to put them in place, particularly in Rooking Glen Park, in my constituency, which has allowed people to use the park more freely. I have also visited Tyndrum recently, spoken about in everyone tweets contribution in her constituency, to meet Sarah Heard and the campaign team there, who are bringing together local businesses and community organisations to provide that vital facility. What was interesting about my visit to Tyndrum is the challenge that remains in terms of being able to leave it in the funding that we are speaking about this evening, to be able to have that £10 million available to communities across Scotland in order to begin to plug in some of those gaps. Communities, local organisations, community councils and businesses are willing to put in funding themselves to attract funding from other organisations, but what could crucially make the difference would be that support from Government to act as an enabling piece of funding or to act as a last piece of funding in a project and allow it to go forward and be delivered for the community and for those who more widely wish to use it. I think that what is quite loud and clear from the cross-party group from campaigners across Scotland is that we do need to see a sense of urgency on this money. We have heard already, I think, rehearsed some of the arguments that the minister, I am sure, will hear tomorrow when she comes to the cross-party group about the concerns about the length of time it is going to take in order to get this money out of the door. Although I appreciate that things can take time, what campaigners also would like to know is what will the criteria be for this money, who will it be given to, how will it be applied for and when is it going to come. That is crucially important because if we waste more time in terms of not knowing those things and we waste more time in not being able to deliver the money then projects will stall, they will become more expensive and crucially we will not move this agenda forward. In concluding, it is key to the lives of so many of our fellow Scots. It is a basic human right, it is basic decency, it is time that we got this money out of the door and into communities where it is needed. I am also delighted to speak in this evening's debate. As a member of the changing places toilets cross-party group, I too pay tribute to Jeremy Balfour for securing the parliamentary time today and for the extensive work he has done on this important issue over the years. I would also like to thank Parmys, Enable Scotland and Capability Scotland for their contributions to the CPG and their wider work. Presiding Officer, why is adequate hygienic and accessible toilet provision so important? It is about so much more than being caught short. It is about equality and ensuring all people can go out and live life as fully as possible and no one is left behind. As Jeremy Balfour emphasised, changing places toilets represent the difference between inclusion and exclusion. It is about dignity and making sure that pregnant and postpartum women, women on their periods, menopausal women, people with special needs and conditions such as urinary incontinence, crone's disease and colitis are not isolated and can leave their homes without anxiety or fear of the situation. Providing safe and accessible spaces is important in a dignified society. This requirement also encompasses the safety, privacy and protecting the rights of women and girls to single sex toilets. That was once again emphasised in the recent employment tribunal case, Ms Vy Abbas vs ISS Facility Services Ltd. This is about ensuring that basic human needs are met, basic human needs for privacy, safety and dignity without fear. I was struck recently by a comment in Karen Ingala-Smith's brilliant book Defending Women's Spaces. She referred to the urinary leash, the restriction of movement due to lack of access to toilets, freedom, wellbeing, quality of life and the ability to participate in public life. All of this is facilitated by something as seemingly mundane as a toilet. I helped care for my two elderly parents in law who both suffered from dementia, a trip out no matter how routine required a lot of prior planning and I know exactly which towns near my home have accessible toilets and many who don't. This topic is close to my heart because so many carers have told me that they need accessible toilets to take those within their care out for visits. It's about quality of life for those who are on danger of isolation. Accessible, clean, safe toilets are basic or a basic human need. Over the festive period I spoke to constituents who shared with me their concerns, the feedback that public toilets are either closed or filthy and those that are not are sadly rare. Toilets on station platforms only accessible when there's a guard on duty, a barrier prevents people from travelling. Dundee railway station, as my colleague mentioned, didn't even include a changing places toilet when it was redesigned and it was thanks to the Scottish Conservative campaigning, Parmys and local activism that ScotRail eventually relented. In the north of Scotland fully accessible toilets are harder to come by. Many of the 267 changing places toilets are concentrated in Scotland's central belt and urban population centres. These are of course much needed but provision falls away the further north you go. It's not just in the west of Scotland, as Evelyn Tweed pointed out, it's actually a significant issue the further north you go. I pay tribute to Councillor Loïc's speed who campaigned for and successfully secured a changing places toilet in our broth but too many northeast communities do not have fully accessible toilet facilities. The SNP government was right in its 2021-2022 programme for government to commit, as we've heard today, £10 million to changing places toilets, but Minister Mary Todd has confirmed there are no plans to allocate and distribute the funds before 2025. What's the reason for this inaction? Why is it that the SNP can go full steam ahead with its overseas office network costing just shy of £9 million but it cannot deliver on a £10 million promise of funding for fully accessible toilets? Meanwhile, the UK government has already started distributing its own £30 million fund and in closure, Presiding Officer, the SNP government's implementation gap has left so many people behind, people with disabilities, special needs, carers, women and parents with children. The SNP government must focus on its priorities and get a move on so that all people across Scotland can access toilet facilities suitable for their specific needs safely and with dignity. Jeremy Balfour is a champion for people who would otherwise be voiceless and I am proud to serve on these benches as his colleague and to add my voice to his in support of his motion. We've got into a pretty rotten state of affairs in this parliamentary session and with this SNP green government when they're prepared to say things, to make promises, which matter a great deal to many people and then to go on and blatantly renaig on these promises. It isn't too strong to say that this breaks the hearts of good people. To be absolutely clear and for the record, this government has not reneged on the commitment. The commitment was in a SNP manifesto and in the SNP programme for government 2021 to deliver a £10 million in this term of Parliament. I'm sure the member, several Conservative members have made that claim. I'm sure they don't intend to mislead Parliament and to mislead the public but we are absolutely delivering on our commitment. It's delivering on her commitment. They haven't spent a penny of the £10 million. You're not delivering on anything when you don't spend an amount that you've amounced with great fanfare, which means so much to so many people. I've seen from myself the difference it makes to families when they're able to have a day's outing to some attraction or venue and know that they'll be able to properly look after a family member who has profound needs and that without the use of changing places they wouldn't be able to enjoy being together outside of the home. I've seen from myself what it means to parents and carers, how much it means to siblings, to be able to be together with all the members of their family and enjoying time together. Changing places makes that possible. Changing places is transformative. Changing places isn't a nice to have. It's indispensable and it's essential. One of the most memorable days that I had when I served as the Member of Parliament for Stirling was the day that I was invited to attend the opening of the new changing places facilities at Blair Drummond Safari Park. I can't speak too highly of Blair Drummond Safari Park. It's a business that adds so much enjoyment to the lives of so many people. I met families that day who were going to be able to make good use of the new changing places. It's something that I will never forget because I could see in the faces of the parents and carers and the faces of the siblings just how much it meant to be able to be together as a family and visit the safari park together. It was made very clear to me that there was no possible way that that day's outing would have been possible if it wasn't for changing places. Things that we might all take for granted were accessible and available to those families. I paid tribute to PAMAS and the dedicated work that they do on behalf of profoundly disabled people and their families, especially in the area of changing places. To govern is to choose. It's always been about priorities. It's especially true when it comes to something as necessary as making it possible for profoundly disabled people to leave their homes, be with their families and create special times and special memories. The older we get, the more we realise how important making memories is. I've got some dear friends who had a profoundly disabled son and I saw the lengths that they were prepared to go to as parents and as siblings to make their son, their brother, an inclusive part of the time they spent together making memories as a family. Sadly, their son, their brother, suddenly passed away, but they have their memories, very happy memories to look back on and to draw consolation from. I call upon the minister to make good on the commitment that this Government made to families such as my friends who are depending on the delivery of that public investment. I think the minister should explain for clarity where is the £10 million. Has it been spent somewhere else? Does it still exist as a budget line? If the money has been reallocated, please tell us. It's a fundamental question. Please can we have a straight answer? Where is the £10 million? That's how strongly I feel about this issue. Let's see some energy and action from this minister on this issue. Show some leadership. I hope that the minister will take this opportunity to make it absolutely clear that immediately she will begin to deliver on what was promised to those families. They are looking to us in this Parliament for help and we should not and we must not fail them. I thank Mr Balfour for his on-going work to promote the importance of changing places toilets, not only by allowing us time in this chamber to discuss and to educate around their importance but also for his time as co-convener, as many others have said, along with Mr Paul O'Cain of the changing places toilet cross-party group. Today's debate has raised a number of interesting cases and ideas and I'm looking forward to discussing this in greater detail with members of the cross-party group tomorrow evening. There's a significant amount of work required before the fund can be opened. We have heard the criticisms of the process in England. We are keen to learn from the challenges that they face and to agree with the CPG and with other interested parties like PAMIS, things like scoping and agreeing eligibility and geographic distribution of the fund, an absolutely crucially important aspect of getting it right for Scotland, determining the funding model and the management of the fund. There's also a need to create material that accompanies the fund, such as application guidance, upkeep and registration, so it's not simply a case of waving a wand and putting the money into the system. I've said already that I don't think that Mr Barford intended to mislead the Parliament in his opening speech but there has been no betrayal of disabled people by this SNP Government. We made a pledge in our manifesto and in our programme for government for 2021 to invest £10 million over the current parliamentary term. The pledge for the current parliamentary term was in the manifesto, not the programme for government, but that commitment is on track. That is despite the many funding pressures that we face and that we discuss here day in and day out. I've been very clear that the fund will begin to pay out next year at the start of 2025. I'm very grateful to the minister for giving way. I met the minister's predecessor to discuss this issue in the early days of this Parliament when we began the cross-party group and the issues that she rightly outlines about needing to have a fund that works and prepared and engaging. All of that could have been done. We have been at this since the beginning of this parliamentary term and if her commitment is to have it done by the end of the Parliament, why has it taken so long to get to this point when a lot of that groundwork could have been done? The groundwork is being done. I assure you that the groundwork is being done. Our £10 million investment is three and a half times bigger than England's on a per-population illness. It is also, as many have described, we have to take into account the geography and the rurality of Scotland, which requires a different approach. I suppose that the discussion around the north-west highlands, which has come up a number of times during the debate, has illustrated exactly some of those challenges. I'm lucky enough. I'd like to complete this point if you just give me one moment. You've had more than your four minutes. I am lucky to live. I'd like to use my time to put across the Government's point of view, if that's okay with the member. I'm lucky enough to have the Ullipull harbour changing places toilet in my constituency, not just in my constituency but in the village that I live in, in the rural north-west highlands. I know just how vital those facilities are to people right across Scotland. It's just one of a number of examples from across Scotland, which really makes the case for how those facilities can make a real difference to disabled people and their families, enabling them to go out and to do things that others might take for granted, like travelling to the islands, like coming on day trips. We love to welcome visitors in the highlands, and we're delighted that we can welcome visitors in the highlands because of that facility. I was pleased to confirm to the Scottish Parliament last September that we are making the £10 million changing places toilet fund available across the financial years 24, 25 and 25, 26. The Scottish Government's policy position on changing places toilets is absolutely straightforward. We committed to investing £10 million over this parliamentary term in that manifesto, and we are absolutely doing that. We understand how important it is. We also committed to supporting mobile changing places for toilet to enable disabled people to access events and outdoor venues. The Scottish Government looks forward to this commitment being delivered, too. It's almost more important, Deputy Presiding Officer, that Jeremy Balfour, who's tried three times now to intervene on debate, is allowed to make an intervention because it is his debate, but I would simply point out to the minister that none of the £10 million has been spent, none of the good that that £10 million can do has been delivered, and that is the point of Jeremy Balfour's opening statement and the statement that many of us, including Evelyn Tweed, the only SNP member to speak in this debate, has asked of the Government. It's very clear when will the £10 million be properly spent in your say 2025. That's a year from now. As I've been absolutely clear, the fund will open at the start of next year. We have some groundwork to do between now and then. I look forward to meeting with the cross-party group tomorrow evening to discuss things like how that money should be spent, how do we make sure that we get the geography covered, all of those issues, but we will absolutely deliver it on this commitment. We want to make sure that the fund is fair and equitable. We need to think very carefully about the eligibility criteria. Forgive me if I want to work with people with lived experience in order to do that. There will be a range of views on that. I think it's important that we gather and consider all of those. For members in the chamber who are not as familiar with the work to date, it's really important to highlight that the new fund just builds on our previous work on the changing places toilets agenda. Members might recall, as Jeremy Balfour spoke about, the introduction of the Scottish building regulations legislation in 2019. That, importantly, required the provision of changing places toilets in larger new buildings to which the public have access. Douglas Lumsden, I thank the minister for taking an intervention. Can the minister confirm that the £10 million of funding will be completely in the £25-26 budget? Is that what the minister is saying? No, that's not what the minister is saying. If you listen very carefully, what I have said several times in this chamber, both today and on previous dates, the money will be available from the start of 2025. That means that some of the money will be available in the 24-25 budget and some of it will be available in the 25-26 budget. Members will be very pleased to know that, in autumn 2022, we published our changing places toilet planning guide, which details practical considerations for organisations considering a changing places toilet. I'll take an intervention in one moment. Scotland currently has 267 changing places toilets, which is over a 25 per cent increase from the 209 that were available in 2019 when we introduced the new building regs. We are making progress on this issue. We are delivering. Evelyn Tweed. I thank the minister for taking an intervention. Minister, you mentioned rurality. Will the Government be looking at a good spread of changing places? In my contribution, I mentioned that there is very much a focus on the central belt. Absolutely. It is crucial that we consider the entirety of Scotland. That is one of the challenges that we have in Scotland. We have a much more rural hinterland, but parts of Scotland that I live in, everybody loves to visit. I want to be able to welcome everyone to that part of Scotland. We are already delivering on our commitment to increase the number of changing places toilets. That fund will only help in accelerating that progress. Members and Presiding Officer, I have covered the Scottish Government's position on this matter. I hope that it is absolutely crystal clear that this work remains a priority. I look forward to returning to the chamber at the appropriate time to give a further update on this particular fund. In the interests of time, I thank members for their comments. As always, I will happily address individual members' concerns through my office. My door is open. I am always keen to hear from you on this subject. It is a subject close to my heart. I am happy to close the debate at this present time.