 I call on the cabinet secretary, Angela Constance. Thank you. Presiding Officer, there is absolutely no excuse for hate crime and prejudice. This Scottish Government is committed to tackling it wherever it happens, whenever it happens and whoever it happens to. An attack on one is an attack against us all and recent events have emphasised the importance of unity in the face of those who seek to divide us. The terrorist atrocities in Manchester and London serve to remind us not just of the terrible dangers of hatred and intolerance but of the hugely inspiring way in which whole communities can rally round to demonstrate unity, support each other and stand up to hatred. At the parliamentary debate on hate crime last November, I said that I would bring forward a full response to the recommendations of Duncan Morrill's advisory group on hate crime, prejudice and community cohesion. I am pleased to update Parliament that we have today published a plan of action to implement the advisory group's recommendations. I would like to take this opportunity again to express my thanks to Dr Morrill and the group for their good work in this area. The advisory group's work has built upon a long-standing commitment to those issues in Scotland. The Parliament has a long history of championing equality and standing united against hatred. The Scottish Government is actively working to build one Scotland where diversity is celebrated and everyone has the opportunity to flourish. We know that inclusive and cohesive communities that embrace diversity provide a better quality of life for everyone. Communities thrive when they feel a shared sense of belonging, when they learn and grow together and when they feel able to live their lives in peace. Cahesion is weakened when the things that push us apart come to the fore, isolation and loneliness, poverty and inequality and intolerance and prejudice. Those are the issues that need to be tackled if we are to remain united. We have worked tirelessly to promote equality and tackle discrimination. I think that Scotland is in a relatively good place. We know that social attitudes have changed for the better and that equality is very much at the forefront of how we do our business. However, it is absolutely vital that we are not complacent. Last week's hate crime statistics show that we still have work to do. A minority of the population still think that it is acceptable to be prejudiced and we know that people continue to express hate crime and discrimination and that that experience is all too real for too many. Unity is hindered by the toxic language that we sometimes hear and read about emigration, Islam and refugees, which can only serve to divide communities, condone prejudice and encourage hatred and abuse. Some have used recent events to target the Muslim community, which is completely unacceptable. That cannot be allowed to stand and should always be challenged. Scotland is in a strong position, but, as Dr Duncan Morrill's group has rightly recognised, there remains much more to be done. In reading the group's report, I was struck by the experiences of those who suffer intolerance and discrimination, which can sometimes be lost in the wider debates about policy and legislation. It is vital that we have lived experience at the very heart of our approach as we seek to tackle those issues. We will look afresh at the way that we do this to ensure that we are hearing the range of voices and views within communities and that those communities are actively participating in shaping our approach. The advisory group's recommendations are wide-ranging, so they require breadth and depth in terms of approach to implementation. Important as it is, this is not solely the responsibility of the justice system to deal with. It requires a truly cross- government endeavour with communities, education, transport and justice portfolios working together to tackle those issues. That is why I am announcing today that we are establishing a multi-agency delivery group with ministerial oversight to ensure that the advisory group's recommendations are progressed. In particular, that will look carefully at barriers to reporting hate crime and how to remove those barriers. It will also consider how we better support work to build community cohesion within local communities and community planning partnerships, and we will invite COSLA to join the group as a key partner. We are also setting up an advisory panel on community cohesion to ensure that our work is always informed by the very best of expert advice. We need to make sure that our approach is informed by the best evidence, and that is why we are working closely with Police Scotland to produce more detailed statistics on hate crime. We are also updating our national outcome on strong resilience and supportive communities and we will seek to improve the way that we measure that. We will also continue to work closely with our justice agencies, who provide front-line support to victims, tackle perpetrators and engage with communities to raise awareness and provide reassurance. That will include looking at what more we can do to tackle online abuse. Of course, there is no magic bullet to solving this problem, but social media companies most certainly have a role in removing unacceptable content and ensuring that their users have a safe experience. However, we also have to ensure that we tackle the underlying behaviours and attitudes that drive people to act in this way in the first place. Ensuring that police and prosecutors have the right tools to tackle hate crime is vital. That is why the Scottish Government has commissioned Lord Bracadale to conduct an independent review of hate crime legislation. That builds on the recommendation in Duncan Morrill's report that we consider whether the existing criminal law provides sufficient protections for those who may be at risk of hate crime, including in relation to their gender, age or their refugee or asylum status. Lord Bracadale will make recommendations to ministers in early 2018 and will consider those recommendations very carefully. I know that Lord Bracadale plans to engage widely in the development of his recommendations. I look forward to meeting him myself later this month. I am sure that other members across the chamber will seek to engage with the review as it goes forward. Looking beyond the justice system, making sure that our broader services are responsive to hate crime is also important. We will agree a hate crime charter with public transport operators, which provides common standards and consistent processes for dealing with hate crime on public transport. We will develop an understanding of hate crime in the workplace and work with STUC and others to take steps to address it. Important as having strong services and quick responses to hate crime is that we know that it is not enough on its own. Awareness of hate crime needs to increase. In November last year, I announced that, in 2017, we would run a public awareness campaign on hate crime. That will aim to raise awareness and help people to understand the impact of their actions and increase wider societal understanding. It will build on previous campaigns such as the stand-up to hate crime campaign that we ran in 2014. We plan to run it in conjunction with hate crime awareness week later this year. All those steps are important, but we also need to tackle the prejudicial attitudes that cause hate crime. That is the fundamental route from preventing it from happening in the first place. Later this month, I will be announcing funding through the equality budget to promote equality and cohesion across Scotland. We will continue to support interfaith dialogue and also formally adopting the international Holocaust Memorial Trust's working definition of anti-semitism. We will ensure that the advisory group's recommendations are locked into our work to promote race equality and the rights of disabled people. There are the simple things that we can all do as members of our own communities. This weekend, we will see the great get-together, inspired by Joe Cox, which will see communities and neighbourhoods come together to celebrate what binds them. I will be attending Edinburgh Pride to stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBTI community in Scotland, and I am sure that members right across the chamber will have similar plans. I would very much encourage everyone to get involved in some shape or form. The great get-together is a fantastic initiative, so let us put our differences aside and celebrate all that we have in common. Our response to the advisory group outlines what I consider to be an ambitious yet practical range of steps that will continue our work to build one Scotland with many cultures where everyone has the opportunity to flourish and everyone can live in peace. I know that the chamber is united around the fact that hate crime and prejudice are unacceptable. Let us also unite around the continued need to show leadership to remain vigilant and drive real change in the months and years ahead looking at the practical action that makes a real difference to people's lives. I urge those who wish to ask a question to press their request to sweet button, if you have not already done so. I call on Adam Tomkins. I welcome the statement and the action that the Government is taking on hate crime, prejudice and community cohesion. Ministers have our full support, and I associate myself and the Scottish Conservatives with the cabinet secretary's comments about Manchester, London and the remarkable resilience of communities across the United Kingdom. In 2015, the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities published a report on what has changed about being Jewish in Scotland—two quick quotations from that report. For the first time in 62 years, I did not attend high holiday services this year due to my security concerns. I am scared to tell people at work that I am Jewish. I talk about going to church instead. The figures released last week showed that, since that 2015 report, offensive conduct towards Jews and offensive communication about Jews is increasing in Scotland. What specifically is the Scottish Government doing to address the on-going rise of antisemitism in Scotland? Secondly, the cabinet secretary mentioned the multi-agency delivery group, but it does not offer much detail. When it will be established, who will share it, how many members it will have and what its remit will be. What specifics about those matters can the cabinet secretary share with us today? Finally, the cabinet secretary talks of a renewed public awareness campaign, building on the Stand Up to Hate Crime campaign in 2014. Was that campaign successful? In a so, how was that evaluated? What assessment of that campaign has the Scottish Government undertaken to ensure that, this time, public resources are targeted as effectively as possible? That is too important an issue for us to get wrong. I appreciate Mr Tomkins's verbalisation of the support of the action that we are taking in response to the range of recommendations made by Duncan Morrill and his group. In terms of the report that was prepared in 2015 by Skoljek, I have indeed received a copy of that report. I am very familiar with its content, as I am with the Scottish Council on Judaism in Scotland. It is an organisation that I have met on more than a few occasions across various portfolios. In terms of the hate crime charges against Jews or Judaism, it is up by 28 per cent. That is an increase from 18 to 23 charges. While those figures remain very low figures, nonetheless, I would accept that we must not be complacent, that there may well be issues of underreporting. We will see that issue raise time and time again in terms of other forms of hate crime and in terms of disability being the other example. The interfaith work is particularly important in that regard, as is the work that is done through our equality budget. In terms of the multi-agency delivery group, we will have ministerial oversight, I will chair that. That will not exclude the involvement of other ministers. That indeed has to be across government endeavour. Other membership, other invitees to participate will be COSLA, Police, Crown Office, although independent, have an important role in that. There will be other groups and organisations that we will want to include in that. I want that group to be up and running this year. The focus is on delivery, it is on the practicalities, how you have an impact on the front line and in the ground. What is informed is the way in which the equally safe joint board on delivery operates and the progress that we have managed to make on the ground in terms of services for violence against women and girls. In terms of hate crime campaigns, they indeed need to be evaluated. Our previous experience of the One Scotland campaign and the stand-up to hate crime campaign in 2014, along with Dr Morrow's report, led us to the view that, as well as increasing awareness, we need to be increasing awareness of the impact of hate crime and that there is also a role with offenders in increasing their insight into the impact of their behaviour. Even with low instances of more anti-social behaviour, the impact that that has on individuals day out is very grinding and increases social inclusion, which we know increases the risk of hatred. We welcome the statement and the priority given to tackling hate crime and prejudice, and, in particular, the reference to education service tackling prejudice, transphobia crime, homophobia disability and a particular reference to refugees and asylum seekers. It is a difficult time for many communities across the country. I was struck by the quote from Duncan Morrow, who said that the alienation of minority groups can lead to radicalisation. I would like to ask the minister what the Government is doing to respond to that point and if it is going to be feeding in anything at all to the much-discredited prevent strategy. It would be wrong for us to be complacent, the statement says, we know social attitudes have changed for the better. I would like an absolute assurance from the cabinet secretary that they will not found on this assumption in today's world. I and many other members in this chamber stood with the Muslim community on Sunday, united against terrorism. That is a community that is certainly not complacent and is certainly vigilant. Religious agrivation has increased and we need to understand that in some detail. The nature of that kind of crime, antisemitism, islamophobia and any other person who is offended against on the grounds of faith. Will the minister be able to say when there will be more detailed figures available so that we can all have a more detailed analysis of the issue here? I am grateful to the tone and tenor of the member's question. She is right to highlight the importance of education in this matter. She will be aware that counter-terrorism is reserved, but many aspects of the prevent strategy are devolved. I suppose that what I would say to the member is that, while there is a justice service, a police, a security service, a counter-terrorism response to extremism, what my statement about today is about how we help communities to respond to extremism, how we help to bring people together, how we help to break down barriers and enable people to work, live and grow together. In many ways, that was the essence of Duncan Morrill's work. We have to be committed to this work with our communities at times of stability, of times of calm but also at times of adversity. I suppose that what I am trying to say is that we need to be committed to this work in the long term. We need to be committed to our efforts to address poverty and inequality, eradicate prejudice and discrimination and social isolation. Her other comments are absolutely imperative that we make sure that no community is scapegoated for the actions of a mindless minority. Although we have not seen an increase in community tension following the tragic events in London and Manchester, we need to be vital and absolutely focused on that. I thank the cabinet secretary for her statement today. Last week, a gentleman who is an EU citizen came into my regional office in Dumfries because he had been on the receiving end of extreme verbal abuse while at work, and he was quite affected by that. Can the cabinet secretary confirm that further action, as outlined, will reassure EU citizens living in the south of Scotland and assure them that tackling hate crime is an extremely important priority for this Scottish Government? The member raises an important issue, because behind the statistics there is personal testimony and experience of individuals. The member touches on something that I did not address in Pauline McNeill's remark about how we always need to get behind the headline statistics. In terms of, for example, religiously aggravated offences, they have indeed increased, although there is a decrease in hate crime charges against the Muslim community. Again, we need to be hyper-vigilant to the issues of underreporting, which emphasises the need to engage with our communities and the organisations that represent our communities. There can be absolutely no scapegoating. As I said in my early response, although we have seen no spike in hate crime following the EU referendum unlike south of the border, we must not be complacent. I am sure that Emma Harper is interested in the fact that, given that her constituent experience is verbal abuse while at work, one of the actions that we are taking forward is to work with employers and the STUC taking our work to improve equality and community cohesion and taking that into new swears such as the workplace. It is important that members continue to raise the individual experience of constituents, because that gives this Government and other members the opportunity to reiterate that EU nationals remain welcome in this country and that any abuse is unacceptable and, at all times, it must be reported. The advisory group report highlights concerns about data collection and the fact that disaggregation appears to be inconsistent. In particular, Police Scotland's data is mixed in terms of usefulness and has not been available at a local level since the creation of a single force. The report also states that continued delays are being experienced in establishing the vulnerable person's database, which is an obvious barrier to producing good police data. Can she confirm what the Scottish Government is doing about the wider issue of data collection and when the vulnerable person's database will be established? Given that she has highlighted that social media companies, most certainly, have a role in removing unacceptable content and ensuring that their users have safe experience, can she elaborate in particular on any discussions that the Government or herself have had with social media companies and whether issues may be reserved at the UK Government level? I hope to reassure the member that justice analytical services are working on a broader range of information with respect to victims, offenders and circumstances in which offending has occurred. A variety of means, including multidisciplinary group, inform policy under actions as we go forward. In terms of the issues in and around the vulnerable person's database and the issues around local data, I will ask the justice secretary to respond directly to her on that. She is right to point out that there is a variety of data that we need to look at. We should not forget the Scottish Social Attitude Survey and what it tells us about the progress that we are making and where we have still work to do, but some of the survey work is done by the Scottish Refugee Council as well. In terms of online abuse, Lord Bracadale's work will touch on the issues in and around online abuse. We all have a responsibility to raise awareness of the risks online and to promote safety online. It is an area that we will continue to work with the UK Government and others on. Of course, there are very specific prevent duties on Scottish-specified authorities around their IT solutions and filters. However, there is no doubt that there is more to do and that the Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft have, I understand, made a commitment to work together to remove offensive material. However, it is important that, as a Government, we continue to pressurise companies to make that progress but also to recognise the work that we need to do within communities. I remind members to to keep questions and answers as succinct as possible. Fulton MacGregor, followed by Mary Feeff. Thank you, Presiding Officer. To ask the cabinet secretary what more the Scottish Government will do to reduce and tackle disability hate crime specifically. I hope that it goes without saying that we are absolutely committed to tackling hate crime in all its forms, including disability hate crime. We very much believe that disability hate crime remains under-reported. We will continue to work with the disabled people's organisation to encourage the reportant. We will continue to progress the work through our planned awareness raising campaign and the establishment of the multi-agency delivery group. However, it is important that the work that other ministers are doing in this regard, the Minister for Social Security and the work that she has done in pulling together the disability delivery plan, that that also locks in the work that we are doing to tackle disability hate crime. Mary Feeff, followed by John Finnie. First, I thank the cabinet secretary for advance sight of her statement today. I agree with the cabinet secretary that tackling hate crime in all its forms must be a priority. I welcome the cabinet secretary's announcement of funding through the equality budget to promote equality and cohesion across Scotland. However, I am slightly disappointed that the cabinet secretary has failed to make reference to the recent Scottish Police Authority figures that highlight a concerning rise of 34.5 per cent in hate crime targeting trans people between 2015-16 and 2016-17. There has undoubtedly been progress in improving the knowledge of police officers regarding the specific hate crime suffered by members of the LGBTI community, with Police Scotland working with the equality network to provide 91 police officers with bespoke LGBT training. Can I ask the cabinet secretary what plans she has to work with the equality network and Police Scotland to widen access to LGBTI training for police officers to help eradicate that particularly insidious type of hate crime and promote a more socially inclusive and cohesive society? Can I advise Mary Fee that I am informed that there has already been some work undertaken with Police Scotland on the specific training for police officers around LGBTI issues? Police officers have a role in providing training, particularly to the people who are working in third parties' reporting centres. The issue of training is a live one, and one that will have to be continually revisited. She is right to point to the increase in the hate crime against the transgender community. The crimes reported have went up from 30 in the previous year to 40. That is indeed an increase, but I think that we would all accept again that there is an under-reporting here, and that we have to continue in our endeavours with the equality network in Police Scotland to encourage, at all times, the reporting even of low-level incidences. It is really important that people report all abuse and all its forms to show that it just won't be tolerated in any shape or fashion. John Finnie, to be followed by Alex Cole-Hamilton. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I thank the cabinet secretary for early sight of the support and I assure her of the Scottish Green Party's support for the initiative's outline. Antisemitism has been touched on, and the rise of the far-right clearly has paid a part in that unacceptable heinous crime. As regards the redefinition of antisemitism, can you outline what the deficiencies were of the previous definition? Can you tell me whether you have plans to redefine Islamophobia? How do you respond to concerns that that definition could be abused to stop legitimate criticism of the apartheid state of Israel? Can I reassure Mr Finnie that we engage with all communities without fear or favour, whether it is the Jewish community or the Muslim community? If the Muslim community is approaching this Government in terms of wanting to reshape definitions that will have a practical impact on how they are supported on the ground, there is absolutely an open door to doing that. We looked at the issue of the definition of antisemitism very carefully. We spoke to a range of stakeholders with that, and we are persuaded coolly and calmly of the merits of it. Does the cabinet secretary agree that tackling hate crime must start from an early age and that there is a need to ensure that LGBTI pupils at every school have sufficient protection and enjoy a culture of openness and acceptance that is fostered by teaching staff, given time for inclusive education campaigns in the form of a set of nine out of 10 LGBTI pupils who have suffered homophobia, biphobia or transphobia? Does she recognise that an anxiety still exists in some particularly faith-based schools? What aspects of sexuality may be discussed in school as a hangover both from the days of closed 2A and some aspects of religious doctrine? It is, of course, the job and duty of government to provide as much clarity and certainty on these matters as possible. Mr Cole-Hamilton might be interested to note that the LGBTI inclusive education working group met for the first time on 9 May, and it is due to meet again on 20 June, that the Deputy First Minister has also committed to meeting universities, the General Teaching Council for Scotland, local authorities before recess to look at the content analysis of equality issues in initial teacher education, the points that he touches upon in terms of equality teaching for guidance and all teaching staff or the children's workforce as a whole is well made, and the Deputy First Minister is well engaged in the issues of equality and CPD for teaching staff, as well as personal, social and emotional education. He is also engaging very closely with the committee's inquiry in that matter. John Mason will be followed by James Kelly. The cabinet secretary mentioned Joe Cox, who herself was a victim of hate crime, and she said that she was going to attend an event this weekend. Can she tell us if the government has any other involvement in those great get-together events? Yes. Several ministers recently met Brendan Cox to hear about the work of the Joe Cox Foundation. I know that another parliamentarians and party leaders met Mr Cox and members of the foundation. As I said, I will attend in Edinburgh pride the weekend. The First Minister is hosting an intergenerational women's event at Glasgow Women's Library on Saturday. The Minister for Social Security is hosting an event on Friday for disabled people in Glasgow, and that has been arranged through the Glasgow Disability Alliance. I really would encourage everybody to get out there and support the great get-together this weekend. I ask the cabinet secretary for an assurance that the work of the Brachendale review in relation to the offensive behaviour at Football Act will not be used to hinder parliamentary scrutiny of the private member's bill, which I am pursuing to repeal the offensive behaviour at Football Act. It is not for ministers to hinder parliamentary scrutiny of any piece of legislation, including the member's bill. The Brachendale review includes the offensive behaviour at Football Act and Threatening Communications Act, because it is a key piece of hate crime legislation. Lord Brachendale is very committed to being very accessible and how he conducts the review. There will be opportunities for members to remain appraised of that work and, indeed, to engage with that work. From the Government's perspective, we will wait and see what other members bring forward in response, not just to Lord Brachendale's review, but to Mr Kelly's member's bill. I welcome the cabinet secretary's statement on LGBTI equality. Does the cabinet secretary think that it is important not just here in Scotland but across the United Kingdom? Scotland is recognised as one of the most progressive countries in terms of LGBTI equality, according to the Rainbow Index 2016, which was published by ILGA Europe. Of course, we cannot be complacent. It is unacceptable that homophobia, as we have seen in the hate crime statistics, has increased by 5 per cent—I think that it has increased 10 per cent the year before. Crimes against the LGBTI community have the second highest incidence of hate crime, despite having progressive policies and legislation in place. We need to continue to work closely with our national LGBTI organisations. It is important, in my view, to advance and promote equality outwith Scotland. That is why, as a Government, we allow civil partners who want to get married in Scotland to do so. It is why my party wants to ensure that same-sex couples have equal pension rights, and why we believe that the UK Government for an office should appoint a special envoy to promote the rights and to help to alleviate discrimination and persecution to face by the LGBTI community throughout the world. Thank you very much. That concludes our statement. We will now have a statement from Rosanna Cunningham, cabinet secretary on the greenhouse gas inventory. We will just take a few moments to change seats.