 Thank you cabinet secretary. That concludes portfolio questions. Time is tight. We are going to move straight on to the next item of business, which is an urgent question. If a member wishes to ask a supplementary, I would ask them to press the request to speak buttons or indicate in the chat function. I call Russell Findlay. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the Scottish Prison Services, Gender Identity and Gender Reassignment Policy Review? I have asked Theresa Meathhurst, the chief executive of the Scottish Prison Service, the SPS to update on the progress of the review. She has confirmed that the SPS's Gender Identity Policy Review is being conducted in five stages. The policy initiation stage and evidence and engagement stages have now been completed. The policy review is now moving through the analysis and recommendations and authorise and publish stages. SPS anticipates the updated policy being published in the coming months. Following implementation, the policy will be subject to on-going monitoring and evaluations. Before I call Mr Finlay, can I remind members or ask members to refrain from discussing the circumstances of any specific cases, particularly any cases that are not yet concluded? Yes, indeed. Yesterday, a double rapist was sent into a woman's prison and, for the legal reasons that you have cited, I will need to be careful about what I say. But this scenario is exactly what I tried to stop during the passage of Nicola Sturgeon's Gender Recognition Reform Bill. I was voted down by the narrowest of margins and even with the flawed bill in limbo, violent criminals are exploiting the system and putting vulnerable women at risk. Why does the SNP Government think that any rapist should be allowed inside a woman's prison? Of course, the Gender Recognition Reform Scotland Bill had not been stopped by another Government completely wrongly. We have not changed the SPS's approach to trans prisoners, which is not dependent on the possession of a GRC. Precession of a gender recognition certificate will continue to have a minimal impact on how SPS manages transgender people. Their process is one based on the assessment of risk. I think that that is the important thing to do. It is the assessment of risk for the individual, the assessment of risk for other prisoners and the assessment of risk for the prison staff. They have a tremendous track record in dealing with managing that risk. I would suggest that they are far more expert in assessing that risk and dealing with it than any of us here in the chamber. I also pointed out this morning that I visited the SPS to discuss the management of risk in relation to serious and organised crime. The SPS is a fantastic organisation that deals with managing risks every day of the week. It has a great track record in relation to trans prisoners and I have faith in their ability to evolve their policy to continue that track record. I encourage members to listen to those who are asking the questions but also those who are answering the questions. Russell Finlay. As expected, the cabinet secretary immediately tries to shift the blame on to someone else. In this case, the UK Government and the Scottish Prison Service know and doubt their professionalism or inter-public interest in public service. What Keith Brown knows full well is that his Government has the power to stop and intervene. I suggest that he familiarise himself with SPS rule 15 subsection 1. He can put this right at the stroke of a pen or with one phone call. Today, will his Government agree to direct the SPS to block this rapist and any others from being sent to a woman's prison? It would have been more illuminating if Russell Finlay listened to the last answer before going on to his preset next question. The simple fact is that I do, as I have said already, trust the SPS to deal with this. They do not, as is the case in England and Wales, have their process determined by the presence of a GRC. We do not do that in Scotland. That is not how it is done. If somebody did have a GRC, it would not guarantee them the right to be transferred to the place of their choice. Every single decision is carried out on the basis of risk. I trust the SPS to do that. Of course, I will be interested, as will the Parliament in the policy review. They can have a discussion about that review when that comes back, but as things stand, I trust the SPS and that is evidenced by their track record. When they have a case of a trans prisoner, everybody including health, possibly psychiatric and other assessments are made, that is the right way to deal with those situations. If you do not think it is, as I say, look at their track record and dealing with it, it is exemplary. It has ensured the safety of prisoners for many years. I ask the cabinet secretary to confirm whether the GRR bill changes the process of the Scottish Prison Service in respect of transgender prisoners. It is an important point and it bears repetition because it has not been taken on board by some of those who are asking the questions and who are shouting just now. The Gender Recognition Reform Scotland bill does not change the SPS approach to trans prisoners, which is not dependent on possession of a GRC. Possession of a gender recognition certificate will continue to have a minimal impact on how SPS manages transgender people in their care. Decisions on placement and management are not based solely on a GRC but on a multiple range of factors and thorough individualised assessments. SPS will retain the ability to place an individual in an estate that does not necessarily correspond to the gender of their gender recognition certificate when they determine that to do so could put the individual or others at risk. It is a risk-based approach. The GRR bill is, of course, not currently in force, so it is not relevant to any current cases. Does the cabinet secretary at least accept that ordinary women and members of the public are outraged by the imprisonment of a rapist who, on two counts of rape, is one of the most serious charges in the Scottish criminal legal system? Ms McNeill, I caution you to refer back to the comments that I made earlier on about references to particular cases. The fact that prisoners may be segregated in a woman's jail in the first place speaks to the fact that the very nature of the women's prison estate is being changed to accommodate that. I agree that it has nothing to do with the GRR bill, because it is the risk assessment. I ask the cabinet secretary whether he would at least consider that his risk assessment is obviously failing in some way, because it is impacting on other women prisoners who have not been consulted about how they feel about this assessment. I call on the cabinet secretary to assure me that there will be a rights-based approach to this that will include the views of women and women prisoners and women who have served time in prisons, and that the crime of rape remains a crime that cannot be recorded as being committed by a woman and that he will at least consider whether the new risk assessment is going to meet those requirements. I should say that, in relation to the policy review and the outcome of that policy review, both Pauli McNeill and Russell Finlay have the ability to question that in detail as members of the criminal justice committee, as well as, of course, of being members of the Parliament. Just to confirm to Pauli McNeill, it is a rights-based approach that is taken just now. The rights of everybody concerned are taken into account by the SPS. Again, the criminal justice committee can have the SPS in and ask them on these issues so that they can go through the process. It is a rights-based approach, and it is one that assesses the risks that are involved. That is the approach that they have taken. As well as that, during the course of the consultation that was undertaken in relation to the current view, prisoners, including women prisoners, were consulted on this process. They will have fed into the outcome of this policy review. I am content with the process that is there just now. I think that they have a tremendous track record. Of course I want to look at what they come back with in terms of the policy review, as will Pauli McNeill on the committee. At that point, we can ask further questions if we remain dissatisfied. I am not. I trust the SPS to do what they are doing in this area. I think that their track record is shown that they are more than capable of assessing the risks. Thank you, cabinet secretary. That concludes this item of business. I will have a brief pause before we move to the next item of business.