 Is that the next item of business is to pick up questions? To ask the Scottish Government what action it will take in response to the Oil and Gas summit in Aberdeen on 2 February 2015. The First Minister led the Scottish Government's involvement at yesterday's Aberdeen Oil and Gas summit, where industry leaders, academics, trade unions, representative bodies and three ddweud o'r ffordd y gwneudio ddangosol yn dweudio'r teimlo i'r gweithio a'r ydych chi. Felly, Gofynedd yng Nghymru wedi ei wneud i ddydig i ddweudio i ddweudio i beth sydd yn atiwyr llawer i gael o'r onigas yng nghymru, efally i ddim yn ffasio ar naffydd o'r gwybodiaethau a'r arbennig i ddweudio ar gweithio i ddweudio i ddweudio i ddweudio i ddweudio i ddweudio i ddweudio We will continue to press the UK Government to make the urgent and substantial tax changes required to sustain investment and the long-term future of the North Sea. I hope that Mr Johnson supports our proposed changes. We are also supportive of the prospect of a city deal for Aberdeen and will liaise with the UK Government, Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Council on this matter. Alex Johnson. I thank the minister for his answer and I am sure that the industry will welcome the opportunity to see Scotland's two Governments working together for the benefit of the industry. Given the longer-term significance of the potential downturn, will the minister commit the Government to improving confidence in the north-east by ensuring that, in future, a higher proportion of locally generated resource is reinvested in the economic growth and invigoration of the north-east? Of course we want to continue to work closely with Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire councils. That is something that the First Minister emphasised that what I think was a very constructive meeting yesterday, Presiding Officer. I am also pleased that the task force led by Lena Wilson, the chief executive of Scottish Enterprise, came up with a large number of practical suggestions, and I know that Lena Wilson is absolutely determined personally to drive those forward working closely with the Scottish Government. I am happy to share the sentiments that Mr Johnson has set out, but I think that it is fair to say that the priority of the industry very clearly now is that the tax changes that are expected on 18 March must be substantial, Presiding Officer, and that is the number one priority, I believe, for us all at this time. I share the minister's enthusiasm for the tax changes that he has mentioned, but, as we go forward, Aberdeen is known well as Aberdeen's Europe's oil capital, but we have the opportunity to consolidate Aberdeen's position as Europe's energy capital. Will the minister give a commitment at this stage to ensure that, as we go forward, efforts will be made to concentrate on energy-related activities within Aberdeen to recognise the work that is done not only in the offshore industry but the potential onshore oil and gas industry in hydrogen technology and in renewables? I certainly agree that Aberdeen, as well as being the centre of oil and gas activity for the UKCS, is also an international hub from which projects, particularly in the broadly the same time zone extending down to South Africa, are managed from Aberdeen. Just last year, the income from international supply chain activity in oil and gas actually exceeded the amount generated from UKCS and West of Shetland activity at just over £10,000 million. I also agree with Mr Johnson's point that we should continue to look at other energy opportunities such as renewables and also seek to work with Colin Parker and others in Aberdeen harbour in order to work through and generate the improvements to the harbour and the possible extension down to Nick. I discussed that with Colin when I met him last week. In all those respects, we have a lot of work to do. I hope that those points would be widely shared by those. Finally, with regard to onshore activity, I made our position clear about the work that needs to be done, the basis for a moratorium pending for their studies being obtained and also a public consultation, which I think is right, given our assumption of responsibilities for those matters. I think that I made all of that crystal clear last week. Does the minister agree with the members of the award-winning Chamber of Commerce, the Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce? The members said that they believe that the supplementary charge, which was introduced as the 2011 budget, must be abolished. I had the opportunity of speaking to Bob Collier of Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber, and I am delighted that he is one of the members on Lina Wilson's task force, so that the excellent work that the chambers do, for example in mentoring, can be brought to bear to meet the significant challenge that lies ahead now in assisting those who have been made or may face redundancy over the coming months and the next year or so can get the maximum possible help. To respond to the question about the supplementary charge, yes, we do think that the supplementary charge hike of 12 per cent in 2011 should be reversed. We set that out in this paper that I presented to Parliament on 8 January. The reason why it is so important is not because there are necessarily profits being made at the moment from my meetings with many operators over the past three weeks, many operators in Aberdeen. There are generally not profits being made at the moment. The real significance is to reinstill confidence in boardrooms throughout the world. I cannot emphasise highly enough, having had a series of private discussions, that investment has already leaked on a very, very substantial scale and since 2011. We are not talking tens of millions or even hundreds of millions. We are talking about billions of pounds of investment already having gone from the UK because of the damaging tax hike in 2011. This is an opportunity for the UK now to send a very clear signal. I think that that opportunity has won that almost everybody that I have spoken to wishes to grab. I heard this morning from a constituent currently working in Houston who said that there needs to be some kind of emergency response system in place to deal with dramatic ups and downs in the oil industry and its impact on the economy of Aberdeen and the north-east. Does the minister agree with that? Will the Scottish Government play its part in such an emergency response system and are we any closer to such an environment following yesterday's summit? As I outlined in the pace debate last week, of course, we already have the capability of, through their employability fund and through European structural funds, to assist people who are affected by the downturn in a number of ways across the whole country. For example, in East Ayrshire, or as I was speaking to Mr Campbell in RAF Lucas in Fife, as you well know, there are many parts of Scotland that face shocks and there are already provisions, as I have argued last week in the pace debate, to deal with that. That is why we have set up the task force and that is why I was extremely pleased to receive already a report in principle about the actions that are going to be taken. For example, it is better to promote and highlight through the industry the major pace meeting that will be arranged in March to promote the employability helpline of the pace team, which is available for those who are affected. Above all, to gain from the ideas that were presented by industry, by trade unions and academics at the task force and the summit meeting yesterday, both of them in order to provide a whole range of different supports for each individual. That is the goal and it is one that we will work to achieve together with all other parties and everybody else. One of the elements agreed yesterday was that the North East needs proper support and investment in order to make it an attractive place for future business. At present, Aberdeen City Council has shortchanged on the local government funding formula by £13 million compared to the Government's supposed funding floor. Will the minister support a change to local government allocations to bring Aberdeen City up to a minimum funding floor and allow investment to make the city be a vibrant place for business? I think that it is correct to point out that we have been the first administration to place a floor on the amount of funding that is available and that is something that, although Alison MacKinnon is protesting audibly from a sedentary position, was not put in place when the previous administration was there. I think that that is a matter of fact, but of course we face difficult times now and I do not think that it is really going to advance us to have a partisan approach about that matter. That is why I always seek to write above expressions of partisan opinion from whatever source they may emerge, no matter how unlikely. To ask the Scottish Government what impact the recent Celtic versus Rangers match had on police resources. Police Scotland put in place more than 1,000 extra officers across Scotland to help to manage the game, more than 600 in and around the stadium and more than 400 in towns and cities across the country. That was a co-ordinated response from Police Scotland with officers readily available to managed fans. That included spotter teams who worked jointly with partners from out with Scotland to target high-risk fans who may have travelled to Scotland for the game. British Transport Police, the football co-ordination unit, also played an important role. It was disappointing to see that a small minority of the 50,000 football fans were intent on causing violence and disorder. At this stage, 56 people have been reported to the Crown by Police Scotland for football-related offences. We must recognise that those individuals are not representative of the positive attitude and behaviour of the vast majority of Scottish football fans and those who attended Sunday's game. I thank the cabinet secretary for his answer. Is he able to say if any of the 56 any of their behaviour was linked to sectarian behaviour, anti-Irish or anti-catholic behaviour? I can advise the member that of the 56 people who have been reported by the police to the Crown, nine were for offences under section 1 of the Offensive behaviour football act. Obviously, there are a number of other offences and the Crown will obviously be considering them as they go forward, however, it is entirely a matter for the Crown and how they choose to proceed with these particular individuals. It has been suggested that alcohol should be more freely available at football games, and I wonder if he feels that alcohol did make the situation worse on Sunday and if more alcohol would really help the situation. As I said previously, the importance of a football match is to make sure that it is an environment in which people feel safe and that they also feel that it is an environment in which they can bring their children and family to as well. It is important that those factors are all taken into considering how we manage football events. As a Government, we want to see our national game to be seen as a positive thing, which people can go along and enjoy. I have stated previously that, if there is any issue around the possibility of introducing alcohol into football, that would have to be widely consulted on because it goes way beyond just what happens in the stadium itself. It is a matter for the football authorities to come forward with proposals on that, if that is what they would like to see happening. However, I am very clear that the approach that was taken by Police Scotland on Sunday, and I joined it as an observer for the policing operation at the game, was an approach that I believe demonstrated the level of professionalism that we have within Police Scotland and how we can manage such major events so extremely well. The commission report into sectarianism, Dr Duncan Morill, made a number of recommendations for football clubs and governing bodies for us to act upon. Can the cabinet secretary inform me if he has met any of the clubs or governing bodies to discuss the implementation of those recommendations? I am not sure that I had anything to do with the recent Celtic Rangers match and I do not know if he wished to respond to the cabinet secretary. Well, it may be if a system member is that my colleague Paul Wheelhouse takes forward this area of policy and she may wish to write to him about these particular matters. Bruce Crawford Thank you cabinet secretary for your answers. I just wonder if you would agree with me cabinet secretary, if we are ever going to get football to move into the real world in this country in terms of the challenges it faces, the only way we are going to be able to achieve that is to make sure that we have much more family involvement. Would he agree with me that it is time that the football authorities woke up, smelt the coffee and introduced summer football to get more families into the game? I am not sure that it has got anything to do with police resources, but if you want to answer it, Mr cabinet secretary? I should say for that, I do not think that my powers go as far as directing Scottish football to have football during the summer, but as someone who is a regular attendor of football matches with my children, I think that having them on Saturday afternoons where the temperature is a bit warmer would be much more attractive to anyone taking their family members along to the football. My view in terms of Scottish football is that it is for the football authorities to make sure that it is not just an attractive product that is on the pitch but also off the pitch. Other countries in Europe have been very successful in achieving that, and I believe that there is a challenge there to the Scottish football authorities to make sure that we achieve that off the pitch as well, to make sure that we create the right type of environment for fans that they are seeing as being valuable and that they give them the type of resources and support that are necessary to make sure that the football environment for fans in Scotland is a first-class one. I want to point out to members that, when I call you for a supplementary, you are meant to address the question that was originally asked. I do not mind when you are very, very clever and you link it to something else, but I have got to say that that degree of cleverness was not on display today. When I move to next item business, which is a debate on motion number 1220 in the name of Mark O'Biadge on the Community Empowerment Scotland Bill.