 cheers to find the common good. May God be with you in this work Thank you the next item of business is consideration of business motion 13421 in the name of Jofex Patrick on behalf of the parliamentary bureau, setting out a revision onto today's business programme, any member who wishes to speak against the motion should press the request to speak button now. I call on Jofex Patrick to move motion 13421 Patrick Harvie has indicated that he wishes to speak against motion, so I now call Patrick Harvie. Mr Harvie, you have up to five minutes. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I'll need nothing like five minutes. I simply question why we're being asked to change business to move the ministerial statement on a publication of the greenhouse gas inventory to later this afternoon. Opposition parties were initially approached on the basis that this move was necessary to allow the rural affairs climate change and environment committee members to return from a visit to Orkney. I see that several members of that committee are in the chamber at the moment and would have been able to ask questions on a ministerial statement of this nature. It seems to me more likely, given the events of the day, that the reason for the change in this is to allow the Government to make policy announcements to the media—which have happened over lunchtime—that the Minister for Parliamentary Business is shaking his head. I'll have an opportunity to answer in a moment, but we're very aware that policy announcements have been made over the course of lunchtime to the media, embargoed so that members of this chamber are not able to be aware of that before the media. It seems to me that the reason why the Government wishes to change the timing of this motion is to spend the day managing the press presentation of it rather than answering difficult questions on an important topic after yet another failed climate change target. I now call Dolfitt's past to respond minister. You have up to five minutes. First of all, to be absolutely clear, the Government would have been absolutely delighted for the statement to continue, as was however requests came in first from members of the Racky Committee who are members of the SNP, Graham Day, and secondly from James Kelly on behalf of members of the Racky Committee, Sarah Boyack, and thirdly from Alison McInnes on behalf of Liberal Democrat members. It's not just about whether people could physically be here because we were aware that the timings would just about allow people to be here for 2.40 or 2 o'clock. However, it was about making sure that those people who are spokespeople who, as I cut to say, the Government gives a copy of the statement, and our air vans would not be able to properly process that statement prior to having to come into the chamber and answer questions. On the point about the statistics, the statement this afternoon is in connection with the statistics. The statistics were published at 9.30 this morning and are produced independently. The code of practice for official statistics states that the issue of statistical release at the standard time of 9.30 a.m. on a weekday is to maintain consistency and to permit time for users to understand and respond to the information during normal working hours. The Government's press release on those statistics was issued at 9.51 a.m. of which that statement refers only to the statistics that had been published. The Green Party itself issued a press statement based on the same statistical release. When the minister makes her statement this afternoon, as well as updating Parliament on the statistics and progress being made, she will announce details of further measures that the Government will take to tackle emissions. I would call on Patrick Harvie to reconsider his opposition of the business motion, which in fact would only change the timing of the statement to make it happen at 2.40 a.m. and it would make no other changes. I understand that some of the members from the RACI committee would be in a position to be in the chamber and ask questions, but I am not convinced that the spokespeople of all the parties would have had time to fully consider the statement in advance, as we always try to do that as a matter of courtesy. I hope that the chamber will support the change to the business as supported by Bureau this morning. I now put the question to the chamber. The question is that motion number 13421, in the name of Joe Fitzpatrick, be agreed to. Are we all agreed? Yes. The Parliament is not agreed. I therefore suspend the meeting for five minutes to allow the division bell to be rung. Order. We now move to the vote on motion number 13421. Members should cast their votes now. The result of the vote on motion number 13421, in the name of Joe Fitzpatrick, is as follows. Yes. 97. No. 4. There were no abstentions. The motion is therefore agreed to. We now move to topical questions. I'll just give a few moments for