 Mae'r next item of business is topical questions in order to get in as many members as possible. Short and succinct questions and responses would be appreciated. At question number one, I call Claire Baker. To ask the Scottish Government how it is responding to the report of drug-related deaths in Scotland 2021, which was published on 28 July 2022. Minister, Angela Constance. Presiding Officer, every life lost to her drug death is a tragedy. The report, which National Records of Scotland published in July, showed that we lost 1,330 people to drugs in Scotland in 2021. Not statistics, but lives that ended far too soon, and each one underlining that we are still in the midst of a public health emergency. I will give a full statement on this issue on Thursday, and will appear before three joint committees next week. However, this Government's response will be to redouble our commitment to the national mission on saving and improving lives. The principles of which will guide us through this emergency are follow the evidence, invest to transform services, and trust our lived and living experience. Claire Baker. Thank you. It is three years since the Scottish Government announced a public health emergency, and yet these figures demonstrate little emergency response. It is no wonder that the accusation of we keep dying, you keep talking continues. The progress on mat standards in particular is lamentable, and while a year target has been set for 1 to 5 targets being introduced, the implementation on that timescale is a year behind what was initially promised. So can I ask what action has taken place over the summer to push for effective delivery on the mat standards? The scale of the loss of life in Scotland should not be underestimated. Drug deaths are, of course, preventable, unacceptable and tragic, and we all have a responsibility to clear part to turn the tide. In terms of mat standards, Ms Baker will be aware that, for the first time in Scotland, the Government has issued ministerial direction. All authorities, whether they are chief executive officers and local authorities, IGB's health boards have received those letters. There is a clear expectation and demand that improvement plans and implementation plans have to be submitted to the Government by the end of this month. We are in the process of gathering and scrutinising that information, and I will, of course, as per my previous commitments to Ms Baker and the chamber, will be keeping Parliament fully updated around the crucial life-saving mat standards. They are not a tick box and they are most certainly not optional. In terms of activity over the summer, she will have seen that we have published a national mission strategic plan. The vital final recommendations from the Drugs Death Task Force have also been published, too. We have 250 million has been committed to this over five years and we have had lots of announcements, but the key task here is to stop the deaths. Can I ask what the Scottish Government is doing to monitor the impact of interventions, how it is able to increase investment or expand activity in areas where progress is being made, and what additional support it is committing to ensure that we see progress and we start to see those figures calm down significantly? As I have intimated in my initial answer, I will be responding to Parliament with respect to the vital report of the Drugs Death Task Force, but in terms of resource, I hope that Ms Baker and others would accept that, with the national mission monies, we see a 67 per cent real-terms increase. I have also endeavoured to ensure continuity of funding both to ADPs and to those vital grassroots organisations. We are pursuing a belt embraces approach in terms of funding front-line services, but we are also directly funding organisations. The point that she raises is that investment is not just about quantum, but it is also about targeting to ensure that the resource reaches where it must reach. That follows monitoring and evaluation. We are publishing more information than ever before to ensure efficacy, transparency and how we allocate money is vital to ensuring that we get cross-government but also cross-sector collaboration, and that we are both serious about reducing harm but also supporting recovery in this country. We all know that residential rehabilitation is absolutely life-saving and that it needs to be front and centre of the SNP Government's efforts to end Scotland's drug-related deaths epidemic. I was shocked to learn yesterday from my constituent James, who is a resident in Caldergren in South Lanarkshire. There is more than half empty right now. There are 13 empty beds there at present. Minister, you said that it is imperative that resources reach where it must reach. Three people are dying every day, so why are people not able to access those beds? I appreciate that question from Ms Webber. I am indeed a powerful advocate for residential rehabilitation. As part of that recovery-orientated whole system of care, Ms Webber will be aware that this Government has committed £100 million. Thus far, we have made commitments around £23 million, which is both about utilising the unused capacity within the sector but also increasing capacity in the sector over and above that. For the first time ever, we have an effect ring-fence money for residential rehab to alcohol and drug partnerships. For the first time ever, we are monitoring the number of residential rehabilitation places that each ADP is funding. I know that, over the course of 2021-22, more than 500 placements were indeed funded. However, if there are particular issues about the care pathway for her constituent, I would be more than happy and, indeed, it is my duty to hear about it, so I should be very welcome to contact me separately on that matter. To ask the Scottish Government whether it can confirm if Hull 801 will be delivered by May 2023 and Hull 802 by December 2023, and within the latest cost to complete budget of £123 million. The target date for the completion of Hull 801, Glensanax, remains by the end of May 2023 and for Hull 802 by the end of December 2023. The current budget to complete both vessels remains £123 million by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy update to Parliament on 23 March 2022. The Deputy First Minister and Minister for Transport were able to see first hand the progress made on both vessels during their visit to the shipyard on 2 August this year. We continue to press the shipyard to continue to progress the completion of the vessels in this agreed timeframe and within budget. Edward Mountain Thank you, Presiding Officer. The answer is that they will be delivered on the latest timescale and on the latest budget. We know that there is only £30 million left in the budget plot and at least another 15 months of build time, so frankly an overspend is probably inevitable. Given the latest disastrous information on harbour upgrades, in what year will both ferries be operational on their planned routes? As I have already indicated, the completion dates for those ferries are at the end of May 2023 and at the end of December 2023. Both ferries will be going into operation after those dates. The work is continuing to make sure that the turnaround in the yard is delivering to those results and that the yard is increasingly becoming more competitive to bid for other business going forward. Edward Mountain We have a Scottish Government that does not even know when the infrastructure will be in place to allow the ferries to operate on the route. We have had a Scottish Government that has mucked up on the contract, the nationalisation in the yard and will overspend their budget and will delay to build the harbour infrastructure that we so desperately need. What more could possibly have gone wrong? I think that the member is incorrect. The harbour infrastructure has been put in place to ensure that the ferries can operate and, as I have said already, the completion dates for those ferries are, as I have already indicated, and the work continues to make the yard more competitive so that it can bid for and win more work on the open market. That is what this Government is focused on—saving the jobs, saving the ship yard and making sure that commercial shipbuilding on the Clyde has a future. If we had listened to others, we would not be in this position today and we would not have saved those more than 300 jobs over that period of time. That is what is important. That is what this Government cares about, the industrial future of that sector on the Clyde. Stuart McMillan The Scottish Government has demonstrated its crystal clear commitment to the communities that are served by the ferries services, but also the strong commitment to ensuring that the proud traditional shipbuilding continues in Port Glasgow and the Clyde, and that jobs are protected from those who have actually closed the yard. What can the Government, and indeed Ferguson Millan, do, to give the yard a secure future and guarantee the jobs and skills for generations to come? Stuart McMillan is of course right to highlight the need for us all to work to give the yard and future generations of employees a secure future. There will be potential work available from this Government. We have previously said that we will have a small vessels programme, and there will be longer-term proposals to invest in new ferry vessels. We would want Ferguson Marine to be in a position to secure some of that work, but whether it is from this Government, other public sources or the private sector, the yard needs to be competitive. We have made clear our expectation in this regard. We continue to monitor progress closely. A lot of changes have been put in place since the new chief executive was appointed earlier this year, and we can now see and say that significant progress has been made. The yard is back to being a serious contender for future vessel contracts, and I would hope that that is something that everyone in this chamber could welcome and get behind. The substitute vessel being used on the Adrossan to Arran route is now 38 years old. Seamall says that they have looked to over 600 vessels in recent years, but only managed to procure one. Could the minister confirm when Project Netschyn will be published, but also will the Scottish Government commit to bringing forward a more sustainable plan to build capacity and construct vessels here in Scotland? I can make the member aware that my colleague the Minister for Transport will be in the chamber on Thursday to give an update on those very issues and look forward to hearing from her about the progress that has been made and the plans that are in place to address the issues that the member raised. Thank you. The minister has already been asked about harbour upgrades, but it did not seem to give a very clear answer. The Adrossan harbour task force was formed over six years ago. We still have no agreement on who is going to pay for what and when the work will be done. Can the minister say today when Adrossan harbour will be ready to take the Glen Sannogs? The member will be aware that, of course, Peel Ports are the owner of that facility, but the Government is committed to making sure that this issue is resolved. My colleague the Minister for Transport is working on this, and, as I already said, we are working to ensure that that is in place for when the ferries will be operational. That concludes topical questions. The next item of business is consideration of business motion 5882 in the name of George Adam on behalf of the parliamentary bureau on changes to this week's business. Any member who wishes to speak against the motion should press their request to speak button now, and I call on George Adam to move the motion. Thank you, Presiding Officer, and moved. Thank you, Minister. No member has asked to speak against the motion. Therefore, the question is that motion 5882 be agreed. Are we all agreed? The motion is therefore agreed.