 Rydyn ni'n wneud i gymryd y gallu ei pegfyniad i ddefnyddio'n cwestiynau llawer. Rydyn ni'n ddefnyddio'n cwestiynau llawer. Gwladم am ydych chi i ddefnyddio'r cyfrifysgwrs yng Nghymru, fyddai dweud i fynd i Beth ymlaen i'r cyfrifysgwrs i'w teulu'r cy써ll i'r cynwyth i'r cyfrifysgwrs yng nghymoedd. Eryd Dda i'r cyfrifysgwrs, Michael Matheson. Ieidw i'r cyfrifysgwrs i Beth ymlaen i'r cyfrifysgwrs have directly benefited from over £890,000 of cashback investment from 2008 to 2016, delivering almost 33,000 activities and opportunities up to March 2026. Phase 4 of cashback started on 1 April 2017 and will run until 31 March 2020. We have invested some £17 million across 17 exciting new programmes that are even more focused on disadvantaged young people in every local authority across Scotland. This will build on the success of the cashback programme to date. May I thank the cabinet secretary for that reply? Can the cabinet secretary give further details on how many activities the scheme has funded both in Western Bartonshire and across Scotland as a whole and what the priorities are for the cashback for communities initiative? As I mentioned earlier on, between 2008 and 2016, we have delivered almost 33,000 activities and opportunities in the Western Bartonshire area. Across Scotland, we have delivered nearly 2 million free positive healthy opportunities and activities for young people to participate in. The £17 million phase 4 cashback programme started on 1 April this year and involves some 17 partner organisations that are delivering for young people across the country. The phase 4 cashback programme has an even stronger focus on areas of deprivation and disadvantaged young people. The strong focus on disadvantaged young people will help to contribute towards the aim of tackling inequality by raising their attainment, ambition and aspiration. I very much agree with the member that cashback gives young people the chance to get creative and to broaden their horizons by taking part in a range of different activities and opportunities. We are providing opportunities for young people to get involved and to improve their confidence and to improve their sense of achievement. Investment in our young people and in their communities through cashback, in my view, is money well spent. I note that the large proportion of the cashback for community schemes in Western Bartonshire goes to sports-related projects. Would the cabinet secretary consider a more even spread to other community schemes that are very worthwhile in Western Bartonshire? The member will recognise that sport is a key component of the programme that we have within cashback. We also have the creative programme and the 17 different programmes that we are now going to be taking, followed by a range of national organisations that will deliver and tailor programmes specific to those local areas. For example, some of them are involving outdoor activities that are not sport-related as such but will involve participating in other types of programmes. This week, the first of the experience in going sailing through the youth ocean growing train programme is taking place, where young people from the borders are participating in that. There is a range of different programmes that will not only be delivered within Western Bartonshire but will be delivered in other parts of Scotland, but that young people from Western Bartonshire will be able to participate in as well. The 17 different organisations that we have given funding for will then be responsible for looking how that is delivered at a local level and also making sure that, when it is a national programme, people from areas such as Western Bartonshire get the opportunity to participate in those programmes. 2. I am the parliamentary liaison officer to the cabinet secretary. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that police stations are resourced to support people with mental health problems. There is increasing recognition of the key role that police play in supporting people who are vulnerable or in distress, including people with mental health conditions. The draft, Placing 2026 strategy, recently published for consultation by Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority, emphasises the importance of a partnership approach in providing effective support to people with mental health conditions. There are already very good examples of collaboration between Police Scotland and NHS partners to improve the response and service to people in distress or suffering from mental health difficulties. For example, community trial services, which provide officers with a now reverse service to community psychiatric nurses, are already operating in the Glasgow area and in Edinburgh. Several other areas across Scotland are developing similar services. The Scottish Government's mental health strategy contains an action to increase the mental health workforce to give access to dedicated mental health professionals in a number of key settings, including the police service. In order to meet that commitment, the Scottish Government will increase additional investment to £35 million over the next five years, and that will pay for 800 additional mental health workers in those settings. Given that, as many as 80 per cent of incidents that are attended by Police Scotland or non-criminal call-outs, including responding to vulnerable individuals and individuals with mental health conditions, does the cabinet secretary agree with me that the provision of a dedicated mental health professionals to police stations across Scotland will be an invaluable addition to local policing? It is important that vulnerable individuals, particularly individuals who may be in distress or experiencing mental health, get the right support at the appropriate time when they contact one of our emergency services, including the police service. That is why the additional investment that we are putting into the mental health workforce will help to support increasing capacity to assist the police in addressing issues relating to mental health. It is also worth noting the significant work that Police Scotland is already taking forward. Last week, I had the privilege of visiting Police Scotland's five-divisional headquarters in Glenrothes and was able to see first-hand the excellent work that has been undertaken to equip officers and staff with the skills to support people who have mental health or are experiencing distress. Police Scotland is leading the way in this, with the training of all its officers up to the rank of inspector, which will involve the training of some 17,500 officers, which will be completed by May of this year, all being trained and equipped with the knowledge and the skills to be able to work with individuals who may be experiencing mental health and distress and to be able to respond to that in an appropriate and effective way. Question 3, Elaine Smith. To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission regarding the 12.5 per cent increase in the solicitor levy. I draw members' attention to my entry in the register of members' interests, where they will find that I am a solicitor by profession and hold a current practicing certificate, albeit that I do not practice. Officials met with the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission on 9 March of this year to discuss the background to its proposed budget. The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission is an independent statutory body and operates independently of both the Scottish Government and the legal profession. It is for the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission to determine the annual levy to be paid by the legal profession in accordance with legislation. Scottish ministers have no statutory powers regarding the commission and hence have no statutory role in operational matters. Elaine Smith. Thank you, Presiding Officer, and thanks to the minister for that response. However, I think that it will be rather disappointing to the many constituents who have approached me and no doubt other colleagues who are hoping that the matter can be raised in the Parliament that some action might be able to be taken. It might be rather confusing for them to hear that answer. Since 2010, the Minister for Community Safety, Fergus Ewing MSP, wrote to the SLCC at that time expressing strong views on the proposed increase in the solicitor levy. Therefore, my question would be why can the Scottish Government not do so now, particularly given the Law Society of Scotland's remarks that this increase is unacceptable, and also given that at that time Fergus Ewing also said that ministers would review the situation and they would see whether any changes in the respective power of ministers and the commission is desirable. I thank the member for her supplementary question. I would point out to the member that, in fact, Scottish Government officials have written to the chief exec of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission to raise the concerns that have been raised recently by members of the profession, in particular concerning, among other things, issues to do with governance, approach to efficiencies and the extent of non-correctivities. That letter has gone to the chief exec of the SLCC and we await his response. On the wider issue of looking at the system as a whole and how it can be made to function better and to wider acceptance, the member may be aware that we announced yesterday the launch of an independent review of the regulation of legal services, which of course reflected a manifesto commitment to review the regulation of the legal profession. Within that review, of course, the complaint system is made up of a number of processes and actors, one of which is the SLCC, and of course reviewers, further to this independent review, will be able to investigate what changes to the system they feel will be required in order to strengthen public trust in the system and indeed to modernise and simplify the system and the regulatory structure underpinning that. Gordon Lindhurst. I remind members of my register of interests in the fact that I am a practicing advocate subject to the SLCC levy. My question to the minister is this, as part of the independent review, will the question of some mechanism whereby the SLCC levy setting be subject itself to independent review, because it would seem somewhat ironic that a body meant to look independently and objectively at complaints against members of the legal profession should be able to set such a levy without reference to independent consideration of what the appropriate levy is? I would respond by reminding the member that, of course, the statutory framework that we are talking about was introduced further to the legal profession and legal aid Scotland Act 2007, which was passed in this Parliament on 14 December 2006, and it was that act. That provided for the fact that the Scottish ministers have no statutory role in the operation of the commission, looking to the future, a potential future and the independent review of the regulation of legal services. Of course, it will be a matter for the chair of the review, Esther Robertson, and her panel to consider all the issues that they feel are relevant within the terms of reference set. I would refer the member to the inspired parliamentary question that was answered yesterday for the full detail of the review. Given that setting the SLCC levy is not a matter that the Scottish Government has a role in, does the minister agree that both parties agreeing to attend a meeting last week to discuss the issue further was a positive step that enabled further discussion and an opportunity for the SLCC and law society to present their concerns directly with one another? I was aware of Rona Mackay's excellent initiative and I commend the action that she took in seeking to facilitate the on-going dialogue between the SLCC and the law society of Scotland. As the member will have heard, there have been a number of initiatives over the past few days to seek to move the issue forward and to look to the future in terms of how we improve our statutory regulatory framework in the years ahead. However, I commend the action that the member took at her initiative to try to move the issue forward. To ask the Scottish Government how effective emergency control rooms are in recognising island geography. The emergency services use a number of different tools to support them in the identification of instant locations. Those tools, alongside extensive training and the utilisation of local knowledge, are held by response units that support the delivery of prompt and effective services to members of the public across the country, including our island communities. The cabinet secretary will be aware that the Scottish Ambulance Service managed to send a plane to Shetland rather than to Orkney of late, and there have been a number of instances with regard to the fire control emergency response systems, including calling out the fire service in the island of Bressay when it should have been in the island of Yale. Will you be prepared to at least undertake an examination of the merits of a joint control emergency system for the islands that didn't have to encounter those kinds of problems? As a member will be aware, there has been significant preparatory work getting into the changes to the operational control arrangements for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service in Scotland. The member met, in recent times, with the chief fire officer, Alasdair Hay, in order to discuss some of his concerns regarding the incident that he made reference to. It is worth keeping in mind that there has always been an element in the way in which operational control is being provided by some of our emergency services that the geographical location of the actual contact centre is not the key issue. It is the knowledge of the staff and the tools and equipment that they have in that particular facility that is important in making sure that resources are deployed to the appropriate area, just by way of illustration of that. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Control Centre in Johnston, before it took in the Dumfries area, once we moved to a single fire service, was covering almost 50 per cent of the calls that were coming into the fire service in Scotland, primarily to Strathclyde fire service. Within that control centre, it also covered some 29 island communities across the coast. It was not so much the issue that, being in Johnston, it was able to discharge that role very effectively. It was about making sure that the staff were properly trained and that they had the equipment that was there in order to make sure that resources were deployed appropriately. That is the approach that has been taken by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service now and also by Police Scotland. I have no doubt that it will continue to look at what further improvements can be made to the way in which the contact centres and the operational control centres are working. Edward Mountain Thank you, Presiding Officer. If I may just give two examples and limit it to the two, the lag crew was called out to attend an incident in Skye, two-hours journey away and over 100 miles to travel. The rassic crew was called off island on 22 December to attend a road traffic accident on Skye after the ferry had closed because they were deemed to be the closest station. It took them to inform the Dundee control room that it was in an appropriate call-out and the one from Kyle was called out. Surely that supports my contention that we should have a control centre in the highlands with the relevant intrinsic knowledge of the highlands and not based in Dundee to sort out the emergency incidents that are faced there. Cameron Cymru Of course, the member will recognise that we already have the Inverness control centre now moved to Dundee. There is a piece of inspection work being carried out by the chief inspector of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service over the coming weeks to give us assurance that all the measures that should be put in place are in place to ensure that the operational control centre is responding to calls effectively. Additionally, the chief fire officer has responded to some of the very specific incidents and explained the way in which some of those incidents have come about and the way in which the fire service has addressed them. It would be fair to say that the chief fire officer has also disputed some of the media interpretation of those incidents as well. What I can assure the member of is that both the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and Police Scotland have significant assurance work on the way in which their contact command and control centres and the Police Service and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, how the operational control centres are operating. That work will continue in going forward. Part of that is also about recognising notable incidents when things go wrong and making sure that that is properly identified and that they will learn from that to minimise the risk of it happening again in the future. That work will continue to be taken forward both by the Police and by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. To ask the Scottish Government when the Cabinet Secretary for Justice last met the chair of the Scottish Police Authority. I last met the chair of the Scottish Police Authority on 18 January 2017. I thank the cabinet secretary for his reply. The cabinet secretary will be well aware of the SPA's terrible performance at the Public Audit Committee last week at an evident session into Audit Scotland's damning report on governance and financial management of our vital police services. A succession of secret meetings, a letter from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland that was hidden from members of the SPA, a board member driven out in a despicable manner all because she dared to scrutinise and carry out her duties. The reputation of the Scottish Police Authority is in crisis and yet the chair of the SPA says that he has no regrets. It begs the question, is Andrew Flanagan capable of turning things around? He has already faced calls for his resignation. Cabinet secretary, should he stay or should he go? There is no doubt that the Public Audit Committee will want to consider the evidence that you received from its course of evidence taken last week and its future meetings on those particular issues. I am very clear about the need for the Scottish Police Authority, like any public body, to be open and transparent about the way in which it is discharging its responsibilities. I have made that very clear to the chair and to the Scottish Police Authority in ensuring that the processes and mechanisms that it has in place are open and transparent. Members will also be aware that I have asked HMICS to bring forward the specific element of its statutory inspection that was planned for the Scottish Police Authority this year to bring forward the governance aspect of that in order to make sure that we can refer further assurance around the way in which the Scottish Police Authority is taking those matters forward. Once we have the HMICS report on that matter, we can then consider any recommendations or findings that are contained within that. I expect, like all public bodies, the Scottish Police Authority to make sure that it is open and transparent in the way in which it conducts its business and that it addresses any issues of concern that have been raised with it and does so in an open and in a way that people can recognise that they are learning from any approaches that they have taken in the past. They are not the approaches that they should be taking in the future. To ask the Scottish Government what role the Lord Advocate has in determining the competency of legislation. I thank Mr Rumbles for giving me the first opportunity to exercise the privilege of speaking in this Parliament since I was appointed last year. By law and by the standing orders of this Parliament, the member in charge of a bill has to make a statement that, in his or her view, the provisions of the bill are within the legislative competence of this Parliament. In the case of a Government bill, the minister will give that statement. Paragraph 3.4 of the Scottish Ministerial Code confirms that that statement will have been cleared with law officers. Law officers consider the terms of every Government bill that is to be introduced in this Parliament and provide ministers with advice that enables them to make the statement required of them by law. I may say that law officers also consider legislation after it has been passed by this Parliament. I have the power, should I consider it appropriate to do so, to refer a bill to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom at that stage? Does the Lord Advocate believe that it would also be his duty to refer a Scottish Government bill to the Court of Session that had been laid before the Scottish Parliament against perhaps his advice but had not received a certificate from the Presiding Officer confirming that it is within the remit of the Scottish Parliament? The ministerial code makes clear that a statement by a minister that the bill presented by that minister is within the legislative competence will have been cleared with law officers. The powers that I have to make references in relation to legislation are those set out in the Scotland act. Sorry to all members who couldn't get in with supplementaries. We move on to the next session of questions, which is culture, tourism and external affairs. We will start with question number one from Richard Lochhead. Richard Leonard. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. To ask the Scottish Government when it will next meet representatives of the tourism sector. I will be chairing the tourism working group on the 18th of May. This high-level group has a strategic focus on the future development of tourism and includes industry representation through the Scottish Tourism Alliance, as well as public bodies with a role in the development of tourism. I visited Scotland Highlands and Islands Enterprise and Scottish Enterprise this morning. I visited the Visit Scotland Expo in Glasgow. This week, at the 120th Scottish Trade Union Congress in Avymor, the Labour and Trade Union movement has been promoting a charter of rights. A charter of rights for a key group of workers in Scotland's tourism industry, those who work in hospitality. A formal launch of the charter of rights, drawn up by the hospitality workers themselves, organised by Unite the Union as part of the Better Than Zero campaign, is scheduled later this month. The parliamentary launch of the charter is planned to take place here next month. Will the cabinet secretary join with me and commit her Government to support the fair hospitality charter, including a real living wage, minimum hour contracts, proper rest breaks, equal pay for young workers and the right for trade union access to organise all workers in Scotland's hospitality and tourism industry? I listened to the member's question with interest. I have not read the charter. I would be very interested to see it. It is one of the big challenges in the sector to ensure that we can tackle low pay to encourage more people into the sector. There are great career opportunities in it as well. We want to make sure that we have the opportunity to make sure that it is a good place to work for everybody involved. It is in that spirit that I would be interested to find out more about the charter. In relation to trade union work, the member will be aware that the Scottish Government has committed £1,500 million to a trade union fair work and modernisation fund to support trade unions to help to embed the fair work framework in workplaces across Scotland. However, I have the intention to make sure that fair work is in the hospitality and tourism sector to take forward that agenda. I think that it is a very important one, but we want to see the whole sector grow, but everybody has to share in that growth as well. Stuart McMillan Thank you very much. Does the cabinet secretary agree that the theme years are a tremendous example of the Scottish Government and its agencies working imaginatively together to help not just to country but also to local communities and that the 2020 year of coasts and waters can aid our marine tourism strategy? Yes, indeed. I think that it has been a great opportunity for partnership working. I also would like to commend the cross-party group and Stuart McMillan himself for the work on marine tourism. Their work in Awakening the Giant has helped us to come to the decision to designate the 2020 year of coasts and waters. The marine industry and the marine tourism industry have got a great opportunity to exploit that and to make sure that our wonderful coasts and our extensive waters, whether they are lochs or rivers or whatever, have the opportunity to be seen by the many visitors that come from both within Scotland and the United Kingdom, but further afield. To ask the Scottish Government what value it places on locations in Scotland holding UNESCO World Heritage Site status. We give great status to UNESCO World Heritage Site status. Obviously, we are in the current year of history, heritage and archaeology. Indeed, in terms of world heritage day, I took part in an event around the Antonine wall celebrating the importance of that, one of our six world heritage sites. There were pics and there were Romans in evidence. There was a great Roman bake-off, but innovative and creative ways of helping to celebrate, not just to preserve and conserve our heritage sites but to make them places for invitation for people to visit is very important. John Finnie. I think the cabinet secretary for that reply. The cabinet secretary may be aware that Northwest Highlands Geopark is involved in a crowdfunding project at the moment. I've asked for an update on that and I've been told, and I quote here, we are weeks away from having no staff, so the crowdfunding is an urgent attempt to stay afloat. Without staff, we will almost definitely lose our UNESCO status. As regards the Lachaber Geopark, the decision there has been deferred until such time as it can secure funding for staff. The UNESCO wider value to the UK report published shows that geoparks each provide £3 million in average to the economy, world heritage sites in comparison. It's £2.2 million. Given the on-going challenges faced by the Northwest Highlands Geopark, would the cabinet secretary agree to meet with me and Dr Ora Hamlet, the geoarchaeologists there, to discuss how we can resolve the issue in the longer term, please? The very basic fact that Mr Finno should be aware of is that the geopark is not a world heritage site, and that's what the subject of the question is. I've got responsibility for heritage sites. The environment minister has responsibility for the geopark in question. Clearly, there's been an extensive amount of investment that I understand in that geopark over a long number of years. I understand their current issues. I suggest that I will ask the environment minister who has the appropriate responsibilities to respond to the member, because, Presiding Officer, this is not the subject for the question. May I ask the cabinet secretary? Can the cabinet secretary provide an update on the setting up of a skills and expertise group within the historic environment strategy for Scotland to resolve shortages in the traditional building sector, a sector that carries out vital work on historic buildings within Edinburgh's world heritage site? Scotland's first-ever historic environment strategy, our place in time, has been warmly welcomed from people across the sector, not just obviously historic environment Scotland responsible for properties and care of ministers, but also the national trust, private properties as well. A skills group has been established for some time, and indeed the work that we've embarked on in Scotland is very extensive. The member might not have visited Fort Valley College, but he should do so. It's one of the investments that we've made where there are building skills, where in terms of the number of apprentices in building skills has been led by Scotland. I think that we're leading across the UK in terms of making sure that we're training up people with those skills. I'd also encourage the member to visit the engine shed in Stirling when that becomes open, which again will be a beacon. It's been working with the construction skills, but also with historic environment Scotland leading to make sure that we've got a place that people can visit and encourage people to take up the skills, because the age profile of those involved in traditional skills is such that it's ageing. We need to bring new people into the sector, and I would commend all those who have been involved in doing that and encourage the member to visit the engine shed when it opens in Stirling shortly. Presiding Officer, I'd like to draw members' attention to my register of interests and that I'm involved in a hospitality business. To ask the Scottish Government what the impact on the tourism industry will be of the rise in business rates. Recognising the value of tourism within the Scottish economy, we acted to cap non-domestic rates increases in light of the revaluation. Specifically, we targeted £37 million of additional rates relief within the hospitality sector this year. Hotels had been facing an average of 37 per cent of a rates increase after this year's revaluation. That has now been reduced to around 12 per cent, and that has understandably been widely welcomed by the sector, and we continue to engage with it regarding our longer-term approach. I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer. The chamber was told by the cabinet secretary for finance that there would be a cap on business rates of 12.5 per cent. Now we learn that the real increase is 14.75 per cent. It will also take 105 days for a decision to be made on any appeal. Why was the industry misled on its rates and why does the Scottish Government continue to increase financial anxiety within the sector? We have not increased financial anxiety. We have worked very swiftly to respond to the request. Obviously, as the member should know, as she declared her own personal interest, that it is an independent rates revaluation. The response by the Scottish Government has been warmly welcomed. She will also know that establishing and setting out the rate of which the relief would apply. We were consistent with what the UK Government does in making the announcement in real terms rather than in cash terms. That is consistent with the UK Treasury's approach. Does the cabinet secretary agree that it is a bit rich for Rachel Hamilton to come to this chamber and play politics over business rates, when organisations such as the FSB called the measures announced in February are sensible, which should provide some comfort for Scotland's vital tourism and hospitality industries? Especially when our own business will save over £5,000 this year. Is it not about time that Rachel Hamilton stopped asking these self-serving questions and started standing up for her constituents? Can I ask the minister to keep a reply relatively brief? I would just ask members not to personally attack other members in the chamber. Every member has the right to ask a question in the chamber. I think that the member sets out her point very well. I think that the point that the industry has accepted and supports what we have provided is one, but I think that there is an issue about the self-interest of parties and the individuals in this chamber, and it is up to them to represent their own interests. I would note that the member did declare her interest before asking her question. Question 4, Ben Macpherson. To ask the Scottish Government what impact cruise ships docking at New Haven has had on tourism in the local area and on Edinburgh as a whole. The Scottish Government welcomes the investment forth ports that has made at New Haven, enabling the harbour to play a growing role in the success of Edinburgh as a key cruise ship destination. With the installation of new facilities this year to allow passengers to disembark more easily, a larger number of cruise passengers will be able to enjoy the numerous attractions that the city has to offer, up from six in 2016 to 12 vessels due to call in 2017. The Scottish Enterprise has recently awarded £79,000 to Cruise Force as part of its tourism destination development fund. Cruise Force works with fourth ports and other partners to further the development of business opportunities from the cruise market. Ben Macpherson, I thank the cabinet secretary for her answer. Can the cabinet secretary confirm what the Scottish Government is doing to support and enhance cruise ship docking facilities and related commerce at both New Haven and Leith? I have set out, in my initial answer, some of the investment that is there. Obviously, having the opportunity to have the pontoon development to make sure that more people can come in is one thing. It is also very important to think about the investments that we have had, such as the dazzle ship investment that marked the Battle of Jutland in that area previously. The Britannia has had an opportunity to attract visitors for many years. There is Trinity House, other opportunities and leased links in other places. In terms of the opportunities, whether it is the clan tartan centre at Lease Mills or the Scottish design exchange, what we are seeing is a shift and a movement where Lease itself is reclaiming its heritage, but also promoting itself as a visitor destination, not just the gateway to Edinburgh, the city itself. Clearly, people who arrive will want to visit Lease but may also want to visit other parts of the city. Is the Scottish Government committed to seeing the tram built from where it is at the moment, down to New Haven? If so, are we willing to finance and help that in regard to a project that will be in the next five years? I have been asked about geoparks and trams. I understand that transport infrastructure is quite often an integral part of making sure that tourists can visit all parts of the city and beyond. I am sure that I will hear the plea from the member and will refer it to the transport minister. To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with Visit Scotland regarding the Jacobite trail. The Scottish Government has not been directly involved in discussions with Visit Scotland about the Jacobite trail. Although this morning, I attended the Visit Scotland Expo in Glasgow and had a chance to see the National Museum of Scotland's exhibition and stall about its body prints, Charlie and Jacobite exhibition. It accompanies the trail that the member is interested in. We have been informed about the trail through the year of history, heritage and archaeology. The trail is primarily a marketing campaign that is developed and funded by a partnership involving the National Museum of Scotland, the National Trust for Scotland, Historic Environment Scotland and the Royal Collection Trust as part of its contribution to the year. The focus of the trail is on those properties and collections held by organisations such as Dooncastle, Glynfennan Monument and the Pass of Hollywood House, which has been supported by the Visit Scotland growth fund. Obviously, if Mr Gray would like to take additional information or discuss the matter further, that must be done with Visit Scotland and the trail itself. I appreciate that the Jacobite trail is a promotion of the partners that the cabinet secretary describes. I have to say that it seems to those of us in East Lothian, Ludacris, that the Battle of Prestonpans battle site is entirely omitted from the trail now. I am no Jacobite then or now, but even I think that the site of Charles Edward Stewart's most famous victory should be a centrepiece of any Jacobite trail. More to the point, the cabinet secretary must surely agree with me that this is a kick in the teeth for the Prestonpans battle site trust and the tourist industry in East Lothian. In her discussions with those partners, will she take the chance to make that point? I think that the point is well made by the member. As I said in my answer, the partnership has been concentrated on the properties that are owned by those partners that have a relation to the Jacobite story itself. The Battle of Prestonpans 1745 heritage trust is omitted in an expression of interest in the growth fund on 15 March, and it has put in application to have a creation of virtual reality resources that could be used around Prestonpans. Unfortunately, the meeting had to be cancelled in March by the trust themselves, but I would encourage that meeting to take place to make sure that there are any opportunities to involve the Prestonpans experience as part of that, but it is not for me as cabinet secretary, as I say repeatedly, to tell individual institutions what they should exhibit or curate or what they should not. However, in the spirit of which the member has made his request, I will make sure that the partners are alerted to his concerns that he has raised today. My apologies, Presiding Officer. It is caught on the hop. To ask the Scottish Government what links it has established with international development organisations working in Sri Lanka. The Scottish Government is engaged with the wide cross-section of international development organisations working across the world, many of whom are undertaking vital work in Sri Lanka. We fund the network of international development organisations in Scotland, which in turn supports the Scottish international development organisations working in Sri Lanka, including challenges worldwide, Save the Children and the Halo Trust. Between 2010 and 2013, the Scottish Government provided over £1 million for our international development fund for several such projects in Sri Lanka through a number of Scottish organisations, including Police Scotland and Sitesavers. We published our new international development strategy in December 2016, which focused our partner countries on Malawi, Zambia, Rwanda and Pakistan. Although Sri Lanka is not one of our development partner countries, we are building on the work that we supported in Sri Lanka in our new partner countries. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I am delighted that we have reached number six. I commend the Sri Lankan diaspora community group Glasgow integrated community empowerment, international support and its chairperson, David Nalaratnam. GEIS IS currently raises funds to deliver action to tackle child hunger and boost child education in three rural communities within Sri Lanka. The positive role of the Sri Lankan diaspora in my constituency in Glasgow made Hills and Strangman and across Scotland is to be encouraged. I therefore invite the minister to meet Mr Nalaratnam and representatives of GEIS IS, who are based in Royston, to find out more about their excellent work and how they encourage more of this model to take forward supporting diaspora communities that they left back in their country of origin. I am very happy to commend the work of the Sri Lankan community in Scotland. Indeed, as part of our consultation on the new international development policy, the Scottish Government did hold a specific round table event to meet with diaspora groups. I am currently following up on those meetings and will be very happy to include representatives of the Sri Lankan diaspora community along with the countries that we are working with as our partner countries in the near future, and I look forward, hopefully, to organising such an opportunity to meet them. My point of order is against myself. Before asking my question, I failed to direct members to the register of members' interests, which includes my membership of Unite the Union, so I apologise for that omission. I also apologise for the mis-identification earlier. I was wondering why Mr Lockhead was not in the chamber to ask his question. Thank you, Mr Leonard. The next item of business is a debate on motion 5312, in the name of Alison Johnstone, on carers and social care. I invite all members who wish to speak in this debate to press their request to speak buttons now.