 I remind members of the Covid-related measures that are in place and that face coverings should be worn when moving around the chamber and across the Holyrood campus. The first item of business is general questions. Question 1, Emma Harper. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to promote manufacturing in Scotland. Minister Ivan McKee. The Scottish Government appreciates the vital importance of the manufacturing sector, which accounts for almost 170,000 jobs or 6.5 per cent of all jobs in Scotland and 12.5 billion in GVA. The manufacturing sector also contributes over half of our international exports. It is therefore key to the successful implementation of our vision for trade, export growth plans and indeed the success of Scotland's economy. The sector's importance is why we are investing significantly in support measures through our integrated programme, Making Scotland's Future. Central to that programme is our £75 million investment in the National Manufacturing Institute of Scotland, Enmys. The Advanced Manufacturing Challenge Fund utilised European funding to draw on £15.8 million of public funding on 12 projects across Scotland and our £26 million low-carbon manufacturing challenge fund will invite bids that encourage innovative development of low-carbon technologies or processes. Emma Harper. Thank the minister for that detail answer. Last week I visited Alffasallwy in Dumfries, who supported by the Scottish Government, have diversified their business model to produce personal protective equipment, including medical face masks for our NHS during the pandemic. Can the minister further outline how the Scottish Government can promote and support manufacturing in Scotland, including through Skills Development Scotland, as a positive career destination? Can he outline what action the Government has taken to ensure resilience in the Scottish supply chain? I thank the member for that supplementary answer. I am very well aware of the fantastic work done by Alffasallwy, who I spoke to several times over the course of the pandemic to commend them on that. Of course, other Scottish companies respond to the demand for PPE or determination to build on that collective response in forms that are planning for the range of measures that are already outlined. We have initiated a supply chain development programme spanning key sectors of the Scottish economy where we see sustainable economic potential for resilience for future pandemic waves and aims to improve the capacity, capability and development of supply chains in Scotland. We work closely with Skills Development Scotland on delivery of our manufacturing recovery plan, including work to support manufacturing as a positive career destination, targeting both apprentices and graduates. I am also pleased that we were able to jointly award NMIS and SDS £1.98 million of funding from the National Transition Training Fund to increase opportunities in the manufacturing sector for underrepresented groups and to upscale the manufacturing workforce. In 2016, the Scottish Government highlighted the capacity for the manufacturing sector to grow through the development of innovative products and services. It has published a manufacturing recovery plan yet. Scottish Enterprise is currently not accepting applications for R&D grants. When can companies expect to be able to apply for the funding that I need? We have put in significant amounts of resources to support the manufacturing sector. I highlighted the £75 million that was put into NMIS, which I visited the site just two weeks ago, and the other funds that were put in place. Of course, Scottish Enterprise will support businesses with the resources that they have and continue to do so. Over the past three years, we have put in an additional £45 million to support the very R&D grants that the member is asking about. Scottish Enterprise will be awarding grants to businesses that it will benefit from those going forward. 2. Pauline McNeill To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports of people being spiked by injection or having their drinks spiked in net clubs across Scotland. As a member will know from an answer that I gave earlier this week, the act of spiking is absolutely despicable, and those harmful behaviours cannot be tolerated in our society. Anyone who is found to spike a person can be arrested under a range of existing criminal laws and can be prosecuted. Such decisions in an individual case are made independently of the Scottish Government by Police Scotland and the Crown Office. Police Scotland is pursuing every single report of spiking. A gold command has been established on the issue and led by an assistant chief constable, which is reaching out to universities, licence premises, Public Health Scotland and victim support organisations. Police Scotland has also established connections with the Scottish Ambulance Service to ensure that any spiking cases are brought to their attention. I will be chairing an urgent round table with partners and representatives from across the sector next week to discuss how we can achieve the right balance of targeted and universal intervention. 2. Pauline McNeill I sincerely thank the cabinet secretary for that response. Drinks spiking put victims in a situation where they are vulnerable to being sexually assaulted, raped, robbed or accidentally injuring themselves. A spokesperson for the campaign Girls Night in said that spiking has become an epidemic never before have we heard of so many students waking up with no memory of what happened the night before, so I have written to Police Scotland just to get some detail on the numbers. I know that the cabinet secretary will agree, as he said in his answer, that it is important to work in collaboration with the nighttime industries to find a way forward such as the use of testing strips and anything else that will give women confidence to keep them safe. 3. Pauline McNeill Finally, does the cabinet secretary agree that this phenomenon fortunately is part of a broader picture of increasing prevalence of violence against women, which is a society that we need to tackle with some urgency? I very much agree with the sentiments expressed by Pauline McNeill. I commend her for the actions that she is taking in her self-contacting Police Scotland. I agree that it is part of a wider problem in society. That is one reason why we are taking forward the potential for a stand-alone offence of misogynyd to be considered by Baroness Kennedy in the working group that was established earlier this year. That will seek to do, along with a number of other measures that we are taking, to get to the root of the problem. Part of that we are trying to deal with through education, teaching pupils about consent and about healthy relationships. It is a societal problem. It is one that is perpetrated by and large by men on women, and men have to address the issue. I very much agree with the points that have been made by Pauline McNeill. 2. Julian Martin I appreciate the cabinet secretary's recognition that the focus on tackling this issue needs to be on the attitude and behaviours of some men that still exist. Even as recently as last week in Evening Express, columnist Frank Gelfether wrote a column on blaming young women for not looking after their own safety. I want to thank the Evening Express for swiftly dealing with that after the outcry. I have also been disappointed to see misinformation around the law in relation to spiking, particularly from Conservative members in the media. Can the cabinet secretary clarify that spiking or intending to do so will be prosecuted under the misuse of drugs act, which can result in a prison sentence, and that the Lord Advocate's guidance that police officers may choose to issue a warning for simple possession of drugs has no bearing on spiking or so-called date rape? I want to say that we should be absolutely clear that women are not to blame and women should not have to change their behaviours to account for the wrongful attitudes and behaviour of men. It is the case that I think that for four-fifths or 80 per cent of the cases involving men against women, one-fifth involving men, but again usually perpetrated by men. Any suggestion of women being in the wrong place at the wrong time is utterly wrong herried. The honest and responsibility should be put squarely at the feet of men, and they have to take responsibility for their behaviour. The whole-school approach and prevention interventions that I have mentioned are to challenge and change the attitudes that permit sexual violence, equipping and empowering young people, particularly young men, with the knowledge that they need to navigate consent in healthy relationships. Gillian Martin is also right to talk about the red herring of the recent announcement by the Lord Advocate in relation to those instances. The police will take those cases seriously at the very start and will prosecute where they have the ability to do so, and that is a commitment that stands out with any previous comments by the Lord Advocate in relation to people who are found in possession of drugs. To ask the Scottish Government whether it is considering a scheme to support and incentivise social housing providers and homeowners to retrofit and refurbish long-term empty homes and bring them back into use as zero-emissions housing. Yes, we are making £200 million available for the next five years to support social landlords across Scotland to increase the energy efficiency of their existing stock. In addition, the affordable housing supply programme is already funding the buy-back of empty homes by local authorities and registered social landlords. Social landlords can then access further funding from the social housing net zero heat fund to install zero-emissions heating systems and energy efficiency measures in those homes. Of course, our housing to 2040 strategy includes a range of actions to support and encourage homeowners to bring long-term empty homes back into use. I thank the minister for that information. It is clear that local authorities need more powers to bring empty homes back into use, particularly as the need for housing becomes more urgent as we head into winter. That is recognised in the Government-shared policy programme with the Scottish Greens. The Scottish Empty Homes partnership is calling for local authorities to be granted compulsory sale and compulsory rental order powers to bring long-term empty homes back into use as social housing. Can the minister confirm whether that measure is being considered by the Scottish Government? I thank the member for her question. We are developing proposals for compulsory purchase and compulsory sales orders in the context of the policies and actions that are set out in housing to 2040 and the route map that sets out to tackle empty homes and vacant and derelict land, and there will be further information about the time scale for that in due course. Does the cabinet secretary agree that it makes sense to restore and refurbish empty homes in rural and island communities rather than build new ones, and will costs converge significantly from property to property? Has any assessment been undertaken to look at the comparable costs and community impact relative to new build? I think that we need to do both. Tackling empty homes remains a key priority. Much of our existing housing stock will still be in use by 2050, and that is why it is essential that empty properties are part of the solution to meeting housing demand. We want to see all homes occupied and none left empty without good reason. The actions in housing to 2040 will help to ensure that empty homes are put to the best possible use. The Scottish Empty Homes partnership estimate that the average cost of returning an empty home to a habitable state is between £6,000 and £12,000. To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to support social housing providers in the Highlands and Islands. We are committed to expanding social and affordable housing across Scotland. The programme for government makes clear our commitment to deliver 110,000 affordable homes by 2032, of which at least 70 per cent will be for social rent and 10 per cent will be in our remote rural and island communities. We have made available over £327 million to Highland and the three island local authority areas over this parliamentary term through our affordable housing supply programme. That follows the £266 million made available over the previous Parliament, which delivered nearly 3,000 affordable homes. I thank the cabinet secretary for her response. Will the Scottish Government make extra funding available to social housing providers in the islands to help them comply with new building regulations, which require sprinkler systems, taking into consideration that the regulations require water pressure above that, which is available in the islands, meaning that a water tank has to be installed with each new development? The member raises a good point. The Scottish Government will make the necessary funding available to social housing providers in the islands and elsewhere, if necessary, to help cover the costs associated with meeting building regulation standards in relation to sprinkler systems. Although grant providers and grant recipients will wish to maximise the value obtained through the affordable housing supply programme, that does not prevent higher cost priority projects from proceeding. Flexibility to award grant subsidies above the benchmark is available where social housing providers can demonstrate why additional grant funding is required and the nature of that higher cost. To ask the Scottish Government when it last met representatives of Stirling Council and what was discussed. Ministers and officials regularly meet representatives of all Scottish local authorities, including Stirling Council. That engagement enables discussion on a wide range of issues, as part of our shared commitment to work in partnership with local government to improve outcomes for the people of Scotland. The cabinet secretary, finance ministers and I recently invited all council leaders to meet us as part of our commitment to strengthening the relationship between both spheres of government. Those meetings commenced in September and we hope to meet Stirling Council as soon as part of that engagement plan. Dean Lockhart I thank the minister for that response. High streets across the Stirling Council area have been badly impacted by the pandemic, especially in rural areas. Will the minister therefore join me and welcome the announcement by the chancellor yesterday that Calender Visitor Information Centre will receive more than £100,000 from the UK Government's Community Ownership Fund, funding that will reopen the visitor centre, help attract more tourists and revitalise Calender's High Street? Note the points that Mr Lockhart has made and the impact that that will have on the area that he represents. I would also hope and appreciate that, as a member of the Scottish Parliament, Mr Lockhart would be concerned about any encroachment on the devolution settlement. To ask the Scottish Government what plans have been made for the delivery of same-day prescribing under national medication-assisted treatment standards in Brechen Angus. Presiding Officer, earlier this year I announced our £4 million investment for implementation of the MAT standards. The investment comes with an implementation resource in the form of the MAT implementation support team to help local areas to focus and embed the standards. In relation to Brechen, it is my understanding that MIST is meeting with Angus alcohol and drug and partnership next week to discuss and agree the support required for implementation of the standards with a focus on assisting Angus to provide same-day treatment for those who ask it for it. People access same-day prescription services because, at that point, they are ready to change their lives. Access to those services is set out, as the minister says, in the national standards. Can I ask the minister what consideration she is given to large sections of the country where centralisation of services and lack of resources has meant that dedicated volunteers such as the Brechen healthcare group are left to ensure that gaps can be filled? What immediate action will she take to ensure provision for my constituents? As I am intimated in my initial response to Mr Marra, the MIST support team will be meeting with the ADP in Concerned on 4 November. That is following an intensive assessment process with a view to providing assistance on the shortening of assessment processes, funding of course, models of change and issues in and around long-acting buprenorphine. I would, of course, desist his characterisation of centralisation. It is imperative that we have national leadership because I am clear that those standards—I am a particular standard number one in terms of same-day prescribing—it is imperative that those standards are implemented and there is a commitment that those have to be implemented across Scotland, including in the member's constituency by April next year. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the new medical centre for luck, Ellie. Cabinet Secretary, Humza Yousaf. In January 2020, the Scottish Government approved NHS Fife's revised initial agreement and invited them to progress to the outline business case stage. Further development of NHS Fife's plans were delayed by the need to respond to the global pandemic. However, I am pleased to confirm that the project is now moving forward. NHS Fife plans to submit the outline business case for review early next year. The Scottish Government has committed to investing £10 billion in health infrastructure over the next decade, and that will include funding for a replacement health centre in Loch Galloway. I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer. First, I am well aware that Covid has impacted on the timetable time that is indeed moving on, so I just want to double-check with the cabinet secretary from what he said that when the outline business case is finally received from NHS Fife, funding will be made available in full for the new medical centre in Loch Galloway, and that some urgency will now be injected into this long-standing project. Can I say to the member that she is right, of course, to express the frustration of her constituents? I know that that has been a longer process than anybody would have liked, but she will also understand that it is really necessary for any capital project, let alone for our health infrastructure, to ensure that the business case stack up. I am sure that the member absolutely appreciates the fact that the pandemic has meant that other considerations have had to be paused. However, I can confirm absolutely as she asks that the project is moving forward, not only moving forward, but we expect to have that outline business case. Of course, it may well need refinement, and we will keep going back to NHS Fife if necessary. However, absolutely, when we have that outline business case, I can give her confirmation that the funding will be found and that it is part of our £10 billion capital infrastructure project moving forward. Thank you. That concludes general questions.