 Ie. Rwm yn gweithio i fy nifer ym Mwysilir Cymru? знает me, er ffodill yn fwy o ddigwydd i chi? A the next item of business is a member's business debate on motion 5455, in the name of Claire Adamson on child safety week 5 to 11 June 2017, safe children sharing is caring. That debate will be concluded without any questions being put. those who wish to speak in the debate, to press or request, to speak buttons now? I call on Claire Adamson to open the debate. We were all shocked and saddened by the horrific attack on young people last week in Manchester. No one can prepare a parent, family or friend from the appalling grief that accompanies death or the injury of a loved one. ond, ond mae'r ddweudio yn ystod cerdwydur hwntych gael y brif, ond wrth i'r awgwrs, ond rwy'n holleg iaid i argynnu i allu gyda'r newid? Fynd i ddadu, rwy'n holleg, rydyn ni'n hunainion ar einuno'r lleid. Mae'n holleg iaid i'r holleg iaid i'r holleg iaid i'r holleg iaid i'r holleg i'r holleg ieithio ein hwnnw, ond sef yr hynny'ch yn rhagion.rakalkool hwnnw rhyw bôn ddiw ond vin typedau ac yn ailtyidad. The theme this year's Child Safety Week, sharing is caring, will resonate more strongly with parents and families across the UK. The Child Safety Week is the flagship annual campaign run by the Child Accident Prevention Trust, which takes place this year between 5 and 11 June. Accidents remain the leading cofnissantur argymell ac yn ystod yr hyn sydd ar ein masfyn iawn i'r unrhyw unod inni yn y UK. Mae gynnig ar fy jwg ddweud hwn yn y wybodaeth wrth dalid. Ac wrth gwrs, dweud hynnyaws mor hwyl. Ysgatwch cyfnodd gan unedig o dddangoswysgau ar y UK i ddodd youch ymddwch, yn ffun o ddylch, yn ffrind o ymweld i'w chlas peiriau ac i'w ddweud gwneud ychydig bobl o'r cyfnoddau ar gyferwyr sy'n rhagledig o'u hunain, a rydyn ni os ydyw unrhyw i gynghwyl ar gyferwyr ar gyferwyr. Ysfyrdd cychwyn ddim yn wneud o'i dd 개�wyd ar gyferwyr o'r cyfnodd ar gyferwyr o'u of pleasure in working with CAPT over the years and other organisations such as ROSPA who, of course, their past successes as they celebrate a centenary year this year include the Tufty club, campaigning for the seat belt law and successfully campaigning for moulded plugs and looped grind cord legislation in Europe. At the moment they are encouraging parents to be aware of the dangers of button batteries, which, when swallowed, are lethal to children. I'd also like to commend another group, the Electrical Safety First, which is a charity aimed to reduce electrical accidents in the home, and it, like CAPT, provides a number of resources for children, including a website called switchedonkidsorg.uk. It supports teachers in delivering key aspects of electrical safety in the classroom and a junior checklist to encourage children to carry out home safety electrical checks under their own homes and to inform their parents and carers to the potential hazards around them. Earlier this year I had a wonderful example of sharing and caring entered into my life. Each year I do my very best to support the Anti-Sectarian Charity of the Marked Scott Leadership Awards, where young people are brought together to come up with a project that enhances their community. The young women who took part from the Cumbernauld schools this year decided that they would learn about first aid training and deliver that to their local primary schools. Their inspiration came from hearing the story of a young toddler who choked on a grape. This was a hugely successful project and I commend the young women who took part. I can't think of a more deserving project for the title, sharing is caring. What can we do? This year, big or small, there are lots of different things that people can do in child safety week to ensure that people are better informed, ideas are shared, best practice is shared among organisations. Of course that is not about individual organisations, it is all about working in partnership. The key to the success are our local councils, many of whom will have road safety officers, many of whom will have trading standards officers who are working day in, day out to make sure that the products on sale in our communities are safe and won't lead to damage or to danger for people. Also using our local facilities like libraries to ensure that health safety messages are being distributed throughout our communities. We also have to work with our health service, our GPs, our hospitals and ambulance staff and paramedics, all of whom work day to day with the consequences of accidents and will have a wide value of knowledge about how to prevent and make our children more secure in our homes. As doing our fire services, our police services and also other groups, other children's organisations, sports groups, brownies and scouts, those housing associations who have homes where children live, all of those partners must come together to ensure that a safety message is at heart of what they do and how they help the people who are living in their communities. There are a number of key areas, as always, that are of danger to people. Fire safety, of course, is one of them. I have already mentioned the Electrical Safety Council, but the fire service also provides a wealth of information to people on how to avoid fires in their homes. We need to understand the dangers of water far better. We have a particular problem in Scotland with our coastal waters for dangers from drowning, and that can be for not understanding the safety warnings on beaches and how the flags operate, but parents are being unaware that it takes only five centimetres of water to be a risk of drowning for a young person of toddlers. Of course, road safety. I was informed this morning of an accident at a nursery in my own community, thankfully. It does not seem to have been a very serious one, but we had a tragic death in Edinburgh this morning on our roads. It is a constant reminder of how the roads are a shared space for pedestrians, cyclists and other vehicles. We need to understand the green cost code, look left and look right before crossing all the messages that were repeated to us as children, clunk click every trip. They resonate and are remembered. In using those fun-engaging ways to work with children, those messages can really sink in. We also need to consider falls and trips for young people, whether that is falling out of a high chair, whether it is a window danger in an upper story or in a flatted area, and cuts in beds as well. The being of most accidents in emergency departments lives at the moment. I imagine the dangers of trample leaning, which many, many children are having accidents on despite the fund that can go along with those. We need to understand that, as society changes, as we change, there may be a reduced fire risk for people who are not smoking in the house, but e-cigarettes can cause real dangers if stored inappropriately alongside metals and in other areas. We should all be aware of the changing and varying degrees of dangers that exist in our homes surrounding roundabout us. I could go on, as you know, about the dangers of poisoning of liquid tabs. I am pleased to say that we are trying to promote, in the cross-party group, on accident prevention and safety awareness. For this week, I wish that people come together and remember how precious our young people are and share those experiences and show that we are a caring country and are getting those accident statistics down, reducing the number of deaths of young people and the number of injuries for our young people in our society. I move to the open debate. I call Bill Bowman to be followed by Stuart Stearmson. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I thank Clare Adamson for bringing forward the motion and I associate myself with her comments about Manchester, which I think we would all share. I welcome today's debate, which recognises the importance of child safety week and the annual campaign run by the child accident prevention trust. Clare Adamson mentioned so many things that I was going to mention but I still will. I cast my mind back and remember the road safety campaigns of the look right, look left, look right again and if safe, cross quickly. The trouble is that, when I was checking that on Google, it came up, look left, look right, look left and I thought, have I got this wrong all my life until I realised that it was an American site that I was looking at. It is obviously an international thing that you just have to be sure where you are when you apply it. The safety concern then in those days was complacency. There were not as many cars on the road and there was always a risk that children would cross without checking the traffic. Never mind being in vehicles that did not have seat belts, sharp edges or hard materials, so we are probably safer outside them. However, the safety concern for child pedestrians are different now. The concern is distraction. There are faster cars on busier roads and children have more and more gadgets to distract them. We are all probably aware of the smart phone, the ear plugs, the hat or the hood, the juice can, talking to their friends and they need to look up and unplug from all that if they are going to be safe and aware of what is around them. As the nature of safety and accident prevention changes, there is always a place for organisations such as the child accident prevention trust and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. Both those organisations have run impressive campaigns throughout their history, raising awareness on the straightforward ways that children can be protected from unintended injuries. As many sayings go, safety is as simple as ABC, always be careful. The simple things always point sharp items away from you, do not hold lighted fireworks, which is something that I must admit that I was not always innocent of. Walk, do not run. There is also another organisation that we should recognise in this debate, which is the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The charity is known mostly for its efforts in helping children who have been abused to rebuild their lives. However, it also dedicates time to raising awareness about child safety. Recently, the NSPCC warned how children left on their own at home during the summer holidays may be at greater risk of being injured in an accident. As we approach the season of the summer school holidays, this warning could not be more timely. As I understand it, and I have opened to correction from any legal person here, there is not a specific legal age for not leaving children home alone. The law says that a child should not be left at home if they are at risk, and parents are expected to use their judgment in that area. However, knowing that that decision can be tricky, the NSPCC provides invaluable safety guidance to parents and they have in their website a very useful little quiz that helps them to make up their right to take the right decision for their child. Such tools are invaluable when engaging with parents about child safety. In my closing remarks, I would like to praise the dedication and tireless campaigning efforts of the child accident prevention trust, and I welcome their continued efforts in raising child safety awareness through their sharing as caring campaign. I also wish to pay tribute to the Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents as they celebrate their centenary year. I call Stewart Stevenson to be followed by Alexander Stewart. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Let me just declare a membership of a safety-related body and member of the Institute for Advanced Motors. Of course, I congratulate Claire Adamson on bringing this subject to Parliament tonight. It is worth saying that I probably am the pupil that was always sitting at the back of the class not listening, not engaging in this. I have a long history of attempted suicide. That is all you can describe it as. I start with being in the Reverend Willie McCraw's mans garden at Bow of Fife at the age of approximately three and a swing hit me in the middle of the nose. First visit to the hospital, I can still remember it. There was a white line down this table, you had to line it with your nose on there so that it could x-ray my nose. It wasn't broken. Age 15, cycling back from the football, my football boots are hanging over the handlebar. The studs in the boots are engaging with the wheel and I am ignoring it. Eventually, trapped in the spokes, the bike stops I flyer with a handlebar's land on my elbows. They both swell up another visit to the hospital. It still didn't manage to break anything. That was preceded. It's not quite in the right order here. Not long after we got a television, the power cable of the television was a twisted pair, and there was a join in the middle where it was unplugged in the extension. I thought that it would be jolly good wheeze to stick my finger in there and see where electricity was like. Black line round the finger near death experience. All those various experiences as a child that would teach me to be a more sensible adult hardly. 4 November 1975, parachute failure at Strathall in 3.30 in the afternoon. Strange, I can remember the time. 1965, out with my pals, we've been up at Bain McDewy in April, walking back across. Suddenly, suddenly, one cloud appears, where in almost zero visibility, I'm at the front of the queue, we haven't roped up, put our crampons back on any of that stuff and I got too near the edge of the quarry, walked on to a corner, fell 300 feet, walked away, still didn't manage to break anything. 1980, we decided to go to Peru, despite the Foreman Commonwealth office saying essential travel only. Well, the taxi we were travelling in as we went over the Andes because the trains were on strike got shot at. The bullet hit the car just two feet behind me. So that was another one. Oh, 1956, you see? Now, looking out here, this is entirely relevant. Well, it's not carefully. Sunstroke at Benderloch beach, hospitalised in the hospital at Obann, survived that one as well. So I'm doing pretty well. By the way, I've come off a plane in an emergency on three occasions, so don't fly with me. Yes, I will. Of course I will. Ms Bailey, put your card in. Okay. Trying not to have an accident in making an accident. The public gallery is starting to clear with this listening of accidents and I wonder whether the member would recommend, given his tendency to have accidents, whether we should in fact clear this chamber right now. Stuart Stevenson. Well, of course I would draw an entirely different conclusion. If there's going to be an accident, you want me there because I always survive and you probably will too. We are politicians. We can turn any example of anything to any point. But the point I want to come to, and there is a serious point to all this, besides just a bit of knock about fun, the serious point is actually parents and everybody else cannot anticipate every danger to which a child will choose to expose themselves. They just can't do that. My parents didn't know I was going to do all these daft things. They just didn't. So what we've got to think about, as well as, of course, responding to specific dangers that there are, is think about how to educate our children to for themselves, recognise that they're putting themselves in danger, recognise appropriate actions to mitigate the effects of their putting themselves in danger. I don't know how to do that, by the way, but I state that as an important point to think. I just close by saying that, of course, every day we'll hold our lives in our hands, and in my case when I look at my hands I can see the scar there when I was drilling into metal and forgot to key it. I look here when I tried to scythe off my thumb, and more importantly, in the Falkirk East, my election, I can look at where six stitches had to be put my hand when I stuck my hand through a letterbox and a dog got it. Life is full if hazard, children will meet these hazards as well, but I congratulate all those who seek to support children, but more fundamentally, to import them to be safer, more responsible citizens than I have ever chosen to be in my entire life. Please be careful sitting down. His wheels on those chairs can be a bit dodgy. Alex Andrews, to be followed by Mark Ruskell. Thank you, dear. I'm certainly not as accident-prone as the previous speaker, so I hope that I can survive this speech without any incident, but I'm delighted to have the opportunity to participate this evening in this debate. I commend and congratulate Garrams for allowing us to have this debate. In particular, it is very poignant in the wake of the events that have happened and the news involving innocent children in Manchester this week. The theme this year, safe children sharing is caring, is a very poignant theme. It lets us recognise that unintentional accidents around take place and has already been said and bounced for three deaths in 2,000 hospital admissions every week. It's been long recognised that injuries are the largest single cause of death in children and young people, and that one in every seven admissions to hospital are for children and young people under the age of 15. Indeed, I was very privileged, the Deputy Presiding Officer, to sit on the Corporate Health and Safety Committee in my role as person in Cunroth's Councillor. During that time, we had a remit to look at what was happening and the risks that daily could happen to children unintentionally and what they were exposed to. Children are naturally curious and they want to engage and tackle and touch and feel and do things. Many of the risks that they, sadly, experienced—we also experienced during our childhood—hasn't changed. It has evolved, but it hasn't changed. For example, scaldings with hot water and baths and dishes and kettles and hot drinks—all of those we've probably all had experiences with or known of someone who has had an experience with something of that nature. It could be appliances such as cuckers, fires, hair straighteners. Today, they are very prone to be left unattended and youngsters want to touch them. I know that my wife and sister have also touched them themselves when they're trying to do their own hair. It's a dangerous appliance to use for your beauty that you wish to have. We've talked about show kings and suffocations and all of the hazards that we have in modern day. The capsules that we put in the laundry, the button batteries that we put into items that we use and plastic bags are all potential risks to toddlers and children. However, sadly, there are many people who do not obviously see the risks and some are even in denial that there are any consequences and risks to children as they go about their time of work and their time of play. It's parents and carers that the CAPT are directly trying to evoke and educate to ensure that they take on board some of those safety measures, and many families want to try to engage. We have to do it in a novel, fun and engaging way, and that certainly has been achieved as we have gone forward. I pay tribute to that, because I think that by trying to break down some of those barriers to make it and us all think about what we are doing, it is important. We have also touched on road and pedestrian injuries. Nowadays, we have traffic calming measures, 20 mile an hour zones and lots of new technology that is there to protect and help, but it still hasn't managed to ensure that we have free and safe locations in the vicinity. Even things such as wearing crash helmets when we take out bikes. When I was a youngster, that was not seen as something that you did. We were quite happy to go out on our bicycle without any protection, but today that is something that is much, much more involved. There have been some successes down the years. There are all society prevention of accidents, hundreds of anniversaries and the Tufty Club. I remember being a member of the Tufty Club. I will admit to it, but it taught me some very good lessons. The seatbelts and the blinds and the cords that we are dealing with in recent times have also been very useful. We should focus on what can be done to reduce the unnecessary harm to any child and any individual. I firmly believe that the initiative that is caring is a very positive and a very pragmatic approach about educating. I commend and congratulate the child accident provision trust for all that they do, the staff and volunteers, because they are making the difference protecting children every day with their endeavours. An annual campaign like this gives us the opportunity to highlight what they are doing and to support their mission. The last of the open speakers is Mark Ruskell. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I thank Clare Adamson for bringing forward this motion here tonight. I think that he is very moving and thoughtful comments that he made, particularly in relation to the recent tragedies that we have seen in recent weeks. I would also like to congratulate the child accident prevention trust as well. I think that the approach of sharing the knowledge that can keep us safe, sharing that between families and within our community makes a lot of sense, culminating in the child safety week that is taking place, I believe, next week. We do live in a complicated world today, perhaps not as action-packed as the world of Stuart Stevenson, but we live in a technologically complicated world. Sometimes the hazards associated with laundry capsules and button batteries perhaps are not quite so instantly apparent, but nevertheless they are there. As Bill Bowman explained to us, so many of us of all ages now are spending a lot of time as screen time. It is often the first thing that I look at when I wake up and say to my kids as well. For better or for worse, that does lead to a bit of chaos and what the trust calls the morning mayhem when everyone is trying to get out of the house, and yet they are increasingly distracted by technology. I think that the idea of sharing information around safety and good practice makes a lot of sense. I learned a new road safety tip the other week from a Dutch driver who told me that in Holland every single driver is told to open the car door using their hand on the passenger side. That obviously means that you reach across to open the car door and as you reach across you turn and you look over your right hand shoulder, which of course means that you check the blind spot for any cyclists or perhaps even pedestrians that are walking in that door space. I was never taught that when I was a driver, when I was learning to take them a driving test, but it is that kind of knowledge that we need to see. I would also like to congratulate Rossba as well for marking their centenary. We have heard about some of the landmark changes that they have managed to bring in, such as the seat belt laws, drink driving limits and who can forget the Tufty club as well. Perhaps the only club that I have shared a membership with Alexander Stewart of it. Who knows? Good to hear it mentioned again in this chamber. I would like to turn briefly to the serious issue of speed reduction. I am sure that members will be aware that I have lodged a members bill proposal for the restricted roads 20-mile-an-hour limit Scotland Bill, which is up on the Parliament website at the moment and is open for consultation responses building up nicely. Of course, what the proposed bill aims to do is to set 20-mile-an-hour as the default speed limit within urban areas while allowing sensible exemptions. I would like to focus a little bit on what I think the impact will be to children of introducing a default 20, because the studies show that for every one mile-an-hour that we reduce the average speed rate, we also reduce the accident rate by around 4 to 6 per cent. We also know through studies of children's cognitive ability that they struggle to judge speed until they reach their middle teens, despite how deep they might be in using the Xbox. It does perhaps mask their inability to judge speed out there in the roads. Perhaps that is one of the reasons why the Royal College of Pediatrics and Health is backing a 20-mile-an-hour default area-wide speed limit. Of course, we all know about the experience in Edinburgh. It has been in the Edinburgh evening news and widely discussed and debated, but quietly alongside that, in fact, since 2003, five council has been rolling out 20-mile-an-hour zones within every single residential area. Three years into that roll-out, they did a study looking at the impact on accident rate and found that, among children, there was a one-third reduction in slight accidents and a 100 per cent reduction in fatal accidents. They also found a greater reduction in accidents in areas of multiple deprivation. That is a social justice issue within our communities. Of course, we have 20-mile-an-hour zones outside of schools, but they often only apply a couple of hundred metres beyond the school gates when we know that the average child walks over a mile to get to school. The wider urban area is not protected. Of course, we know also as drivers that when we leave a 20-mile-an-hour zone, we see a 30-sign encouraging us to speed up as we leave that zone. One of the impacts in Fife as well was the increase in active travel as a result of the area-wide roll-out across Fife. Not just the increase in walking and cycling, but the increase in scooting, skating and also parking and striding. Benefits all-round. I have no doubt returned again to the issue, but in terms of the context of today's motion, speed limit reduction can play a part, only a small part, but a part, in making our streets safer for children. Mark McDonald does not lead as an rendition of the Tufty Club song, or to close this debate. Well, you have somewhat stolen my thunder, because I was going to follow on from Mr Ruskell in talking about the ecumenical nature of the Tufty Club. I, too, was a member of the Tufty Club in the 1980s, I suspect, somewhat later than either Mr Ruskell or Mr Stewart were, but clearly the Tufty Club has many Augusta graduates of its time. I want to congratulate Clare Adamson on bringing this debate to the chamber. I know that this is an issue on which Ms Adamson has a very long-standing passion and interest, and she has done a great deal of work over the last session and into this session to raise awareness around the wider safety agenda, but in particular to bring the focus on child safety to the chamber on more than one occasion. I thought that she made a very important point where she reflected on the campaigns that had been led by Rosba in relation to gaining EU-wide regulations around moulded plugs and loop-blind cords. I think that those are always things that it is worth reflecting on, because so often we hear about the red tape regulations in Brussels, and I think that it is worth remembering what some of those regulations actually relate to in terms of the practical impact and the safety of children that have been protected as a consequence of those regulations. We then see rather nicely into what I would determine as the misspent youth section of the debate, in which Bill Bowman talked to us about his checkered past in relation to firework handling. Stewart Stevenson, who—I am amazed that he survived this long, Presiding Officer—has drawn two conclusions. One is that Stewart Stevenson is very accident-prone, and the other is that he is clearly also immortal, which we can determine whether that is a good or a bad conclusion to have drawn, Presiding Officer. Alexander Stewart made the fair point about the difficulty that is often faced in relation to ensuring that there are safe locations for children. What we want to try to ensure is that we do not dissuade and discourage parents from allowing children to be children. Many of us grew up with, and our children are now growing up with, bumps, bruises, skint, knees, dirty trousers from playing outdoors. We do not want to discourage that. We want to ensure that we create a society that is risk aware rather than necessarily being risk averse. Getting the balance right in relation to that, I think, is important. That is why the work that is being done by the child accident prevention trust and by ROSPA to ensure that people are aware of the risks so that they can mitigate and manage them while still allowing children to have the enjoyment of exploring the world around them. Mark Ruskell spoke about ensuring that we have cognisance of the difficulties and distractions that technology can create. He also spoke about his planned members' legislation, which, obviously, I am not in a position to comment on at this stage. He makes a very fair point around ensuring that motorists have due recognition of the fact that we are trying to encourage more children to be active and play outdoors, and that will necessarily mean that in some streets there will be children likely to be playing. We would certainly encourage children to play safely in these environments, and motorists should bear that in mind in terms of their behaviours while driving in those areas. The Scottish Government continues to work closely with ROSPA. We have a number of programmes that are under way. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde's straight-off, straight away campaign is reducing the risk of burning from hair straighteners. The Not for Play keeps them away partnership. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has seen a dramatic increase in the number of young children being intubated after swallowing the contents of liquid laundry capsules, a matter of which I know Ms Adamson has brought to the chamber previously and has campaigned on vociferously. We have trained the trainer courses that are being delivered to fire officers and local authorities to support the roll-out of training on home safety awareness and risk. We are also delighted to have funded the child safety week since 2008, and we continue to support it again in 2017. As part of next week's events, my colleague the Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs will be visiting Craig Royston primary school in Edinburgh, where she will join the Haven project, which provides support to children and families living in the local area to improve wellbeing of the whole family. The Government is also delighted to endorse the child safety week resource packs available to all community groups across Scotland. The pack provides ideas and information on the most common types of accidents and advice on how to prevent them. The pack includes a one-step-ahead child safety chart and links to a range of online resources and online activities for children, families and schools. The partnership, of course, is the key to successful delivery, and this year's theme of sharing is caring further promotes the benefit of joint working and community engagement. We continue to commit to child safety through our community-focused building safer communities programme. Phase 2 of the work includes a commitment to a reduction of unintentional harm, which is defined as predictable and preventable unintentional physical and psychological harm. Through that, we have recently published the first national strategic assessment of unintentional harm in Scotland, the first time that the different sources of relevant data and information that inform incidents of unintentional harm has been put together into one single strategic assessment. There are many examples of good practice across the country. We have the home safety scheme in Dundee, a multi-agency project that includes the Scottish Fire and Rescue, Police Scotland and NHS Falls and third sector protection and rights organisations, which, through a collective home assessment common referral system and trigger approach, households can receive specialist advice and assistance at the point of need. The home check scheme in my local area of Aberdeen offers a free service to any family with a child under the age of two and also elderly residents. It includes a home safety check with advice given on how to apprehend hazards within the home and the Go Safe Scotland campaign, written by experienced teachers from Glasgow and Fife, providing a groundbreaking resource to teach young children about the right choices to stay safe, linking all aspects of child safety within health and wellbeing. There is a range of work under way in some of those areas. We are aware of the continued work of the cross-party group on accident prevention and safety awareness, which Ms Adamson founded and continues to chair. We recognise the work that is on going there. Work is also continuing with Water Safety Scotland. It would be important to highlight that as we enter into the summer months, particularly the spell of good weather that we are having just now as people make their way to the beaches and the locks of Scotland, that we recognise that there is a need to ensure appropriate water safety in Scotland—not least because we have seen a number of recent tragedies, including one that affected my constituency. The Government continues to engage in that work as it progresses. I have mentioned some great examples of local initiatives under way. We will continue to support the work of community safety partnerships and community planning partnerships across the country to continue that good local partnership work. I have no doubt that Ms Adamson will continue to lead the way in taking those debates to the chamber and her work on the cross-party group. The Government looks forward to continuing to engage with her on that agenda.