 We will turn now to First Minister's Questions. Question 1, Ruth Davidson. Thank you, Presiding Officer, to ask the First Minister what engagement she has planned for the rest of the day. First Minister. Members will be aware of the heartbreaking news today that 14-year-old Ailey MacLeod from Barra was amongst those killed in the Manchester arena on Monday night. I know that we will all want to send our love and thoughts to Ailey's mum and dad and to all of her family and friends at this dreadful time for them. Our thoughts are also with Ailey's friend Laura McIntyre, who remains in hospital. Later today, I have engagements to take forward the Government's programme for Scotland. Ruth Davidson I would like to associate myself with the words of the First Minister. The thoughts and prayers of those benches are with the families of those who lost loved ones on Monday, particularly today, with the family of Ailey Macleod, her friend, and the whole barar community. This is a tragedy that will be felt by everyone on the island – a closenic community that today is grieving. Gwylwyr, mae hi wedi bod yn rhaid i fy gwasgwyddiadau i wneud i'r ffawr i'r gwybod i'r gwasgwyddiadau a'u cyd-dweud i ffwrdd i'r cyllidol i'r gwybod i'r rhagorau i ddweud i ddweud yn ddych chi i gael eu cymdeithasol y ffawr yng nghymru i'n gweithio ffawr. Maen nhw'n ddigon i'r ddweud i ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud. uncommon—a maen nhw', y wneud? Aethalu'r ddim yn shwrти gyda'i fedyym ddarparol y mae wir. Mae encounter yn ymyr attacking o'r dd klass o ll birds antybiol sy'n hawddiaf neu mae'r dd-dweud iaith yn Hygion spyfio hwyng chi'n ddymai ffasbodaidd am y maemon 19. A i'n ffaith ymgwrdd sloeth â hyllaf sydd o ddd y dda i sydd o siemdidig manteil hyrca i mièl o unionigned sy chicken In addition, on the approach that she has taken, I think that above all, today, young people and their interests and wellbeing are very much in all of our hearts and the Scottish youth Parliament has raised many issues over the years that have not just been of importance to young people in Scotland but have then resulted in action by this Parliament and I think that that is to their credit. annexor on the mental health system, as members are aware, mental health for young people, for children and adolescents, and making sure that we can meet the demand on services but ensure a quality of services at the heart of our mental health strategy. Amongst many other actions, we have given a commitment to a review of personal and social education, the role of pastoral guidance in schools and school counselling services, mae'n helpu i gyf Lincoln Unedig i gwybodaeth o'u gweithio cexippu i gael eich bobl. Those actions have long been important, but, given the events of the past few days, we have appropriate support for young people who, for a whole variety of reasons, experience stress, trauma and degree of difficulty. It is hugely important and the Government is committed to making sure that we do the right things in this regard. Ruth Javison Felly, fy ydych yn gymryd dda'r ysgolor yng Nghymru yn gwybod yng nghymru i'r falch mae Gwlad Dderdd yn cyfathrath eich hollwyr cwmaint gan gynnwys amllewid, byddig i'r cyflwy Hengyrchol. Mae'r cwmaint yn i'r cyflwy fydd yn cyfrifoedd, ddim yn gwybod ddifrwgol y gymherd a'i gyfathrym yn nes â gwirionedd cyflwyno mewn eu cyflwyno a'u arfer y hwn ym 16 pan oed. Mae'r cyflwyno yn gwybod dwy'n 7,000 gwaith yn gwybod sefydliadol ar gyfer y cyflwyno a'r lessent mental health services last year and warns that without help their issues may worsen. Does the First Minister share the concerns that were raised by Sam H? Can she assure her that the concerns that were raised in this campaign are being taken seriously and taken forward? First Minister. I do share the concerns of Sam H, but Sam H is also a key partner of the Scottish Government in making sure that we take the action to address some of those issues. As I have said many times in the chamber, and I know that it is a point that I Danic Gnolliw ar y cwrs. We are seeing many more young people come forward for mental health services, and that is something that we should encourage, because it does demonstrate the reducing stigma associated with mental health, but it puts an obligation on the Government and our national health service and other agencies to make sure that we can meet that demand. There are two particular issues that I would want to briefly respond to in terms of Ruth Davidson's specific question. First, people who come forward for child and adolescent mental health referrals and those referrals are rejected. As members will be aware, we have given a commitment in our mental health strategy to a review of rejected child and adolescent mental health service referrals, and then a commitment to use that review as a foundation for further improvements. It is important to point out, of course, that there will be a number of reasons why a referral might be rejected and ultimately that is and always should be a clinical decision. There may, for example, be occasions when another intervention before CAMHS treatment is needed. However, we do want to make sure that our CAMHS services are working well and that they are joined up properly with other services so that young people get the care that they need. The second point is more general. Obviously, I said in my first answer about the review that we are commissioning into personal and social education, but there is also an importance that we should all attach to mental health first aid. There is mental health first aid training to support staff and young people in educational establishments that have been funded by the Scottish Government and rolled out across Scotland by education Scotland. The aim of that is to train staff in secondary schools to increase their confidence in approaching pupils who think that they might be struggling with a mental health problem. That training is very much about complementing other more formal services, so there is a whole range of actions that we are taking, and I hope that the chamber can unite behind this approach. We know that there is work to do, but we are absolutely determined to get on and do it. Ruth Davidson Again, let me thank the First Minister for her response. Of course, we often talk about money and resources when we are discussing those issues, but often it is about other factors too that are not within Government control. For example, the fabulous work done by the Scouts, Guides, Boys Brigade and other youth organisations, all of which is shown to have a hugely beneficial impact on young people's mental health. Organisations that, in countless unseen ways, change the lives of young people for the better and which steer young people to better choices and to happier lives. As well as celebrating the work that they do, does the First Minister agree with me that we should do more to support youth organisations and aim to ensure that, as far as possible, every young person in Scotland has the chance to join one? The First Minister Yes, I do. I think that we should pay tribute to the work of organisations like the Boys Brigade, the Scouts, the Brownies and the Girl Guides. In fact, I think that we have had the Boys Brigade in this Parliament this week talking about the work that they are doing to encourage young people to take part in sports. They do fantastic work. I am sitting next to a former member of the Boys Brigade here—I am sure that there are many others in the chamber—but they do fantastic work. I think that pointing to the work that they do is important for a wider reason. Understandably, this week, we are talking about unbelievable horror and trauma that has been suffered by young people, principally the young people who were in Manchester Arena on Monday night. As we have commented on in the chamber over the course of the last couple of days, children across our country who were nowhere near Manchester will be impacted by the scenes that they have seen on their televisions. We should never forget that youth is a time of great joy and should be a time of great happiness when young people get to explore. I have read many things this week, so many beautiful and poignant things about the right of passage for any young people who have gone to their first concert and the experience of that. We must always remember that our principal obligation is to support, in every way that we can, young people to be young people and to get the most out of life. Organisations such as the one that Ruth Davidson has mentioned today certainly play a very important part in making sure that we do that. The First Minister has touched on this earlier, but Sam Hyswig also raises a lack of counselling services in secondary schools and points out that children in Wales and Northern Ireland have guaranteed access to schools-based counselling. Notwithstanding the mental health strategy that is put in place by the Scottish Government, it says that children in Scotland are still missing out. Earlier this year, we published a mental health paper supporting the idea of school champions and counsellors to be appointed in schools, colleges and universities. In her first answer, the First Minister also referenced moves to improve counselling in schools. Can she give us an assurance today that this is something that the Scottish Government will take forward in good time so that young people have the same counselling services available to them as elsewhere in the UK? I think that counselling in schools is hugely important. It is also important, just in a wider sense, to recognise that health and wellbeing is one of the core aspects of the curriculum for excellence. It is embedded in the very curriculum of our schools, but it is important that we make sure that schools have access to the resources that allow them to support in a very practical and meaningful way the health and wellbeing of children and young people. So counselling is important. The review that I spoke about will look particularly at school counselling. I have also mentioned the role of mental health first aid training. It is important to say that a mental health link person is available to every school. That is achieved in a variety of different ways, using different models that meet local needs. The link worker might be a CAMHS clinician or, from another specialty, such as a primary care worker, however, that named link person will be able to contact specialist services for advice if they need to do so. The review that I have spoken about, which is an important aspect of the mental health strategy, will allow us to determine what further action we need to take to make sure that schools have access to the right resources to give the best possible support to all young people. 2. Kezia Dugdale Do you ask the First Minister what engagement she has planned for the rest of the week? Engagement is to take forward the Government's programme for Scotland. Barra is one of Scotland's most beautiful and peaceful places, and that peace has been shattered by the actions of Silom and Abedi. The family of Ailey McLeod are grieving. The family of Laura McIntyre are just hoping and praying that their daughter will get better. A death like that shatters most communities, but it hits particularly hard in an island community like Barra. Can the First Minister tell us what extra support the Scottish Government can offer to the people of Barra at this difficult time? Kezia Dugdale raises a really powerful point. The death of a young person in any circumstances, but particularly in tragic and horrific circumstances, such as the ones that we have witnessed this week, is very difficult for any community, anywhere to deal with. Barra is a small island community, and it is a very close-knit community. The impact of the death of Ailey and the horrific injuries of Laura will be felt in the community in a way that is much more intense than will be the case in a bigger community, and we must be mindful of that. My own colleague, Angus Brendan McNeill, is a resident of Barra himself, and I know from him just how that is being felt. In terms of the support that has been offered, Scottish Government officials have already engaged with the council to ascertain the support that has been made available and to consider whether there are any ways in which we can support that. I understand that the director of education, who is an educational psychologist, is currently on Barra, and a further educational psychologist and NHS clinical psychologist is travelling there today. Between them, they will be focusing on the support that the families and those who are closest to those two girls will need. I think that people will understand and agree with this. Their aim will be to keep things as normal as possible for the school that the girls attended, but to make sure that there is support in place for young people who are going to need it. The last point that I would make here is often a point that is relevant in any tragic incident like this. We all think of people in these circumstances in the immediate aftermath of incidents like this because the media is full of the images, but it is often in the days, weeks and months after an event like this, that the impact on those closest to people who have died will be felt. I am conscious of the fact that the Government and working with the council who will be in the lead in this need to make sure that that support is in place, not just today, next week or next month but for as long as it is needed. I very much welcome that answer and thank the First Minister for it. After attacks like the one in Manchester, political leaders talk about how we cannot let the terrorists change our way of life. We can do that by carrying on with the business in this chamber and by holding the Government to account as normal. That is what I want to do now. Earlier this week, Target Avarian Cancer published its Pathfinder report, the first of its kind in Scotland, and it found that 36 per cent of GPs wrongly believe that there are no detectable symptoms of Avarian Cancer, and that is costing lives. So can the First Minister tell us what steps she will take to improve the expertise and awareness of Avarian Cancer among Scotland's GPs? We will pay close attention to that report in the first instance. One of the things that is extremely important, particularly with cancer—and obviously our focus is on prevention and early detection as much as it is on treatment—is to make sure that clinicians, particularly primary care clinicians, have the guidance and the information that they need to spot symptoms. I know that GPs and others working in primary care want to be in the best possible position to do that. Regularly, not simply with Avarian Cancer, but with other conditions, there will be work to look at and review guidance that goes to clinicians. Given undertaking today that we will do that, as far as the Avarian Cancer report is concerned, we know that this runs very strongly through our detect cancer early programme. The earlier cancer is detected, the better the outcomes for the patients who have it. Thank you for that. Of course, it is not just GPs who lack awareness about the early signs of Avarian Cancer. The report shows that 83 per cent of women do not know the main signs or the main symptoms of Avarian Cancer. The First Minister just mentioned the detect cancer early programme, which has been very successful of raising awareness about cancer of the breast, lung and bowel. Given the startling findings of the report and the prevalence of Avarian Cancer, I wonder if the First Minister might think that it is time to extend that detect cancer early programme to cover Avarian Cancer, which it currently does not. We keep that under regular review. I was health secretary when the detect cancer early programme was first established. There was a lot of careful thought that went into the particular cancers to focus on in the first period of that campaign in lung, breast and bowel cancer, where it is selected because of the significant numbers of people who suffer from those cancers in Scotland. However, regularly, groups representing patients with other cancers make representation for inclusion in that programme, and we will always be happy to consider that. Given the target Avarian Cancer report that has been referred to today, we will certainly welcome the opportunity to discuss with target Avarian Cancer how we as Government can support greater efforts to raise awareness among the public at large, but also among the people clinicians working in primary care. I would be happy to make sure that the health secretary includes in that discussion possible future inclusion in the detect cancer early programme. 3. Patrick Harvie Thank you to ask the First Minister when the Cabinet will next meet. May I add, Presiding Officer, my own condolences and those of my party to the family, friends and community of Ailey MacLeod and our most sincere hopes for the recovery of a great many others who are still fighting for life, perhaps, or recovering from serious injuries, including Ailey's friend Laura McIntyre. As the faces of those who have been lost or injured are seen and as we learn the names and some of the life stories of those who have been affected, there will be tears shed in communities like Barra right across the UK and I think far around the world as well. Election campaigning is due to recommence later and we all have a responsibility to do so in an appropriate tone and in particular to reject the division that both terrorists and the far right in this country seek to create along lines of race and religion. Keeping people safe at home, though, must never prevent us from also valuing all life equally. Is the First Minister aware of the tragic deaths of at least 34 people, many of them children, toddlers and even babies crossing the Mediterranean on Wednesday from Libya to Italy? Can I seek a continued commitment from the First Minister and, I hope, from all political leaders to resist the voices of hostility and xenophobia, to ensure that we look after those who need safe routes to this country and to others and to be given safety and security as asylum seekers here? Would that be an appropriate time to press the UK for a reversal of its decision to scrap the Dubs amendment protecting child refugees? I am aware of the dreadful tragedy that Patrick Harvie refers to. Anybody else who has read accounts of that will have been just so distressed and upset to read of mainly toddlers being drowned and killed in this case. It is important for all of us—I know that this is the view that we all take as human beings—that the loss of a child's life is a tragedy no matter where that child comes from, no matter the circumstances that they have grown up in. We should mourn and grieve any child's life and where a child loses their life, whether in an attack like the one we saw in Manchester or with a family crossing the Mediterranean fleeing circumstances that we can scarcely imagine in the hope of a better life somewhere else. We should always dedicate ourselves to learning those lessons and to trying to do everything that we can to make the world a better place for our children to grow up in. The only person responsible for what happened in Manchester on Monday night was the man who did what he did and carried out that attack. However, it is the case that we must, all of us, work to resolve the conflicts in the world that people like that individual completely without justification, but nevertheless they try to use as excuses for the heinous acts that they carry out. There is a lot of injustice in our world right now, and we sometimes can feel very helpless in the face of that, but we all have a role to play in trying to address that injustice in making our world a better place. One of the ways in which we can do that is to offer a hand of friendship to those who are fleeing conditions elsewhere that we can scarcely imagine. I am very proud of the work that local authorities and other agencies across Scotland have done in welcoming Syrian refugees and making them feel at home here in Scotland. Today is not the day for party political statements to be made, but I think that there is more that the UK can and should do in the years ahead, and honouring the Dubs amendment would be one way of making sure that we are giving that helping hand to some of the most vulnerable children anywhere in our planet. Patrick Harvie. I am grateful for those words. All of our hearts are hurting for those whose names and faces we are learning, but it is important to remember the equal value of every life, including those whose faces we will probably never see and whose life stories we will probably never learn about. Can I also ask the First Minister about the decision by the UK Government, which in this case I support, to suspend the sharing of intelligence information with the United States following a series of leaks of particularly sensitive and potentially relevant to inquiries information to the media? It has been said that UK officials have expressed anger, disbelief and astonishment at the actions of the US intelligence services in leaking that information. Does the First Minister share that reaction? Does she agree with the decision of the UK Government to suspend the sharing of that information? What are the implications for the security measures that the Scottish Government and Police Scotland are responsible for if in future we are unable to trust the intelligence services of an ally? First Minister? Firstly, in terms of the first part of Patrick Harvie's question, as I said earlier on, every child is valued and we should mourn the death of every child. I will not be the only person in this chamber or across Scotland or the UK today who finds it difficult to look at the photograph of the wee eight-year-old girl that was killed in Manchester without feeling tearful, but many of the children who die in other circumstances, we will never see their photographs, but that does not mean that their lives are any less valuable or that we do not have a responsibility working with others to try to make things better for other children. In terms of the intelligence sharing, firstly, the ability of countries to share intelligence and to share intelligence confidentially and securely is one of the things that helps to keep us safe. The importance of that and the importance of having trusted arrangements in place such as through the Five Eyes system cannot be overestimated, so I share the anger and disbelief of the UK Government that we have seen very sensitive details from the on-going live investigation that has been leaked to the media in America. That is completely unacceptable, and I think that all of us should make clear that that is unacceptable and cannot be defended in any way, shape or form. Although I know that they will have taken that decision with regret, I think that the UK Government is right to, hopefully, for a short period, stop sharing intelligence information with the American Government. I know that they will want that to be for a short period as possible. I know that the Prime Minister has said that she will be raising this issue with President Trump today, so I very much hope that the assurances will be given by the American Government that allows a very speedy return to the sharing of intelligence that is such an important part of keeping not just the population in the UK safe but populations across the world safe. Let us be in no doubt that what we have read and seen in American newspapers over the last couple of days is completely unacceptable and potentially compromises the investigation that is currently under way into the atrocity that we saw here on Monday night. If we can keep the questions and answers relatively succinct, we have got a number of supplementaries. The first is from Linda Fabiani. Thank you, Presiding Officer. In this sad week, people have many concerns and, of course, safety and security are amongst them. May I ask the First Minister to confirm that the chief constable does have the proper resources to deal with the security situation here in Scotland as it currently stands? I have had that assurance from the chief constable. We discussed this obviously yesterday in Parliament when I made a statement on the security situation. After that statement, I visited the multi-agency co-ordination centre in Govan police station and spoke again to the chief constable there. The chief constable has, as is his responsibility, reviewed the security arrangement in Scotland, given the increase in the threat level and has made judgments about the level of policing, including arm policing, that is necessary. It is his judgment at this stage, although he will keep that under review, that the police have the resources, within their own resources, to provide that level of policing across Scotland. Therefore, he does not require at this stage to call on military personnel to help police the streets or public places in Scotland. Although let me say publicly and record my gratitude to the military for their offers of support and for the support that they are providing in other parts of the UK, I spoke to the Brigadier responsible in Scotland yesterday and recorded my gratitude for his offers of support. The police here in Scotland have the resources from within Police Scotland to provide the appropriate level of security. I think that we should be grateful to them for that. However, the chief constable has that operational responsibility to make those decisions, and he will keep that matter under review for as long as the heightened security situation exists. This morning, Parliament's culture committee considered the role that Scotland's libraries, museums and galleries play in the pursuit of knowledge and understanding. Would she understand that, in this post-manusister world, people of all ages keep asking why that atrocity happened? Therefore, would she undertake to co-ordinate that work of the national collections in the understanding and study of Islam, in the diversity of religious tolerance and understanding, and finally in the work that goes on across all our agencies to ensure that that indeed happens? I am very happy to take that forward and ask Fiona Hyslop to have a look at what we can do to support our national galleries, our libraries and others in making a contribution to the mutual understanding of different cultures and different faiths, because that is what is so important at the heart of this. So many conflicts and disputes across the world come from ignorance and misunderstanding. Some of it has to be said to be deliberate misunderstanding and ignorance, but the more we can encourage people to learn and understand about different faiths and different cultures, the more chance we have of ensuring that people, not just in this country but across the world, can live together in harmony. So culture, books and art have a hugely important role to play in that. I think that it is a very good suggestion from Tavish Scott and I would be happy to ask Fiona Hyslop to take it forward and to report back to him in due course. Minister, I met the head of the Student Association for Glasgow, Kelvin College and Springburn recently. I understand that following strike action in colleges that terms may need to be extended to allow students to complete course credits. Can the Scottish Government work with colleges to ensure that they are in a position to alleviate any additional student hardship caused by such as additional childcare or travel costs? Shirley-Anne Somerville met with Colleges Scotland's Employers Association on Tuesday of this week to seek reassurance on the contingencies that colleges have in place to minimise any impact on students as a consequence of the recent strike action. A firm assurance was given that contingency measures are in place, however I am happy to ask Shirley-Anne Somerville to speak to Colleges Scotland to raise those specific issues. More generally, I am very pleased that agreement was reached last Friday between unions and employers to enable further strike action to be called off. To ask the First Minister what action the Scottish Government is taking to attract foreign direct investment. The 2017 Ernst and Young attractiveness survey on inward investment to the UK published on Tuesday of this week reported that with 122 projects successfully secured during 2016 and three Scottish cities, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen in the top 10, Scotland continues to be the most attractive location for foreign direct investment outside of London in every one of the past five years. We continue to work with Scottish Development International to engage with potential investors across the globe to ensure that they are fully aware of the many strengths of the Scottish economy and the range of support available to help them to grow their businesses here. Kate Forbes I agree that the EY Scotland attractiveness survey is a very positive sign for the Scottish economy. Does the First Minister agree that a further positive sign is the number of high-value projects, particularly R&D projects, that Scotland now attracts? And while they may not bring as many jobs in their first phase, they are the basis for a high-value knowledge-based economy that will lead to more and better-paid jobs in the future? The First Minister Yes, I agree very much with that. The attraction of high-value jobs to Scotland is a very positive sign. The EY survey says that Scotland was a clear leader for R&D in the UK, attracting more projects than any other UK region in 2016. R&D projects attract high-skilled, high-value jobs, and our excellent performance in the face of what we see as reductions in R&D investment elsewhere is testament to the strength among other things of our academic excellence. However, we must not be complacent and we remain very focused on ensuring that Scotland continues to be seen as a highly attractive place to invest. Jackie Baillie Whilst gross and foreign direct investment is absolutely to be welcomed, it was a 2.5 per cent increase for last year compared to a 51 per cent growth the previous year. So our growth was less than the UK as a whole and the total number of jobs secured has fallen by almost 50 per cent. The EY survey also said that Scotland's perceived attractiveness to investors has decreased for a number of reasons that I won't rehearse. So can the First Minister offer an explanation as to why there is this difference in FDI growth and what action she is taking to close that gap? I think that it's very difficult for anybody to fairly read the EY report from Tuesday and come to the conclusion that it's anything other than positive for Scotland. I mean, if we look, for example, at the comparison with last year, 2015, which is the previous year report that was based on, was our highest percentage share of UK projects recorded in the past 10 years. So it was a particularly strong year. So the improvement this year on last year was always likely to be slightly less than that. But the 2016 result is still excellent. 10.7 per cent of all projects coming to Scotland still places Scotland significantly above our population share in what is an extremely competitive inward investment environment. And I think that that is something that we shouldn't be complacent about, but we should all absolutely celebrate. In terms of jobs, and this actually goes back to the question that Kate Forbes has just asked me, Kate Forbes, I think absolutely put her finger on this. A number of the projects, of course, reported through the EY study, didn't have figures for job numbers, so that obviously reduces the number because we don't know for some of the projects how many jobs are there. But one of the issues with numbers of jobs here is that so many of the projects that we attracted last year were high-value projects, particularly in R&D. As most people know from their own experience, those kinds of projects do not necessarily bring the large numbers of jobs that others do, but what they bring is huge value to the Scottish economy. The future success of our economy is based on attracting high-skilled roles in areas like R&D and software, delivering that higher value. The success in R&D should be something that we do not see as a negative because it perhaps brings fewer jobs. We should see it as a positive because of the added value that it adds to our economy over the longer term. Mike Rumbles While foreign direct investment is absolutely essential to Scotland, before any Scottish Government money is invested in these companies from a board or base to board, will the Scottish Government be carrying out any checks to ensure two things? One, that those companies pay their proper taxes in the UK, and more importantly, that they have a level of pay for their workforce, which is legal and appropriate. The Scottish Enterprise carries out robust due diligence on companies before they invest and has a careful assessment of the companies that they invest in, not least so that we can ensure that we are getting greatest value for taxpayers' money. To a particular point raised by Mike Rumbles, the position of the Scottish Government could not be clearer. It is absolutely the responsibility of all companies to pay the tax that they are due to pay. I believe that we should have, and this is not a responsibility for the Scottish Government, it is not within our powers, but there should be much more robust rules and regulations around tax avoidance by companies in place. On the living wage, we are crystal clear about the importance that we attach to payment of the living wage. We are in the situation now where Scotland has a higher percentage of people who have paid the real living wage than any other nation in the UK, but we still have work to do, so we will continue to use all the levers at our disposal to make sure that we encourage companies to pay the living wage or to set out plans by which they can move towards paying the living wage. Adam Tomkins Thank you. To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Government will provide details of the meeting that it held with business leaders on 21 March. The First Minister Ministers regularly engage with the business community and publish details of the meetings proactively on the Scottish Government website. On 21 March, I, with the Deputy First Minister and the economy secretary and the finance secretary, met with the 13 key business leaders at Bute House to continue our engagement with industry on Scottish Government activity and allow them the opportunity to raise any issues with us in return. Adam Tomkins I thank the First Minister for that answer. I am pleased that the Scottish Government spends a proportion of its time speaking with Scotland's business leaders. We can all learn from Scotland's businesses, large and small, about how we can grow and stimulate the Scottish economy. Given that young people are rightly and understandably a theme of today's First Minister's questions, let me ask this. What advice have Scotland's business leaders given the First Minister on how Scotland's economy can be stimulated for our young people entering the jobs market for the first time, and how is the Scottish Government acting on and taking forward that advice? The First Minister There is a range of different ways in which we are working to make sure that our economy offers the opportunities that our young people need and want. The work that many of our universities and colleges do with business to make sure that they are providing the courses and the opportunities that employers need to grow their businesses is part of that. The work that we are doing to encourage high value investment into Scotland is another part of that. Developing the Young Workforce, one of the business leaders that was engaged in discussion with us on the date that I am talking about with Serene Wood, led the work for the Scottish Government on developing the Young Workforce to make much more close and productive those links between our schools and our academic institutions and the world of work. Developing the Young Workforce, work is now being taken forward across Scotland, where chambers of commerce, for example, have a leading role to play in that. While our economic strategy and our economic initiatives have a range of purposes in terms of growing the economy, all of it should be furthering the opportunities that our young people have to succeed and to prosper. Anas Sarwar To ask the First Minister in light of her expression in the view that the NHS pay cap is unsustainable whether the Scottish Government will provide details of the submission that it made to the pay review body. In the last pay review, the submission that the Scottish Government sent included a commitment to paying the real living wage, guaranteeing a minimum increase of £400 for staff earning £22,000 or less, continuing our policy of no compulsory redundancies. Of course, all three of those policies are different to the situation elsewhere in the UK and, lastly, a 1 per cent pay increase for staff earning over £22,000, which I know is similar to the position in Wales. That was our last submission. I have made it clear that, as we have now entered a period where inflation is rising, the pay restraint that we have seen in recent times is unsustainable. That is why, in advance of our next submission, we have already asked staff representatives, including unions, to work with us to gather evidence to submit to the NHS pay review body. Anas Sarwar, the First Minister for that answer, she will be aware that our NHS staff have endured seven years of pay restraint and, for some nurses, that has meant a 14 per cent real terms cut worth £3,400. As she has just said, her own submission to the pay review body was to keep the 1 per cent pay cap. Does the First Minister accept that our fantastic NHS staff deserve better pay and will she commit to scrapping the pay cap? As I said before, we have had pay restraint for the last number of years and I know how difficult that has been for staff. The purpose of that, at a time when our budgets have been getting reduced year on year, has been to protect jobs in our public services and our NHS and our wider public service. The Scottish Government has taken a range of actions to try to give targeted support, particularly to the lowest paid. The initiatives that I outlined, the real living wage, the guaranteed increase for low-paid staff, the continuation of no compulsory redundancies, are all policies that are not in place elsewhere in the UK. That is an indication of how seriously we take fair treatment for those who work in our NHS. In terms of the future, I have made it clear that, when inflation is rising, pay restraint of that nature cannot be sustainable. We, in the NHS, have given that commitment to getting a submission with staff representatives that takes account of inflation and moving forward where we can secure fair outcomes for staff in the NHS and the wider public service. It takes account of affordability but it also takes account of the cost of living and the pressures that people live with on a day-to-day basis. We will now move on to members' business in the name of James Dornan on the 50th anniversary of the Lisbon Lions. We will just take a few moments for members to change seats.