:00:21. > :00:26.What engagements does she have planned for the rest of the day? Gil
:00:27. > :00:29.I have engagements to take the programme the Scotland and I will
:00:30. > :00:39.take part in the ITV leaders debate which of course, Theresa May is
:00:40. > :00:43.docking. Ruth Davidson. We don't have enough teachers in Scotland.
:00:44. > :00:46.Given the fact that all sides accept this, does the First Minister agree
:00:47. > :00:50.with me that when young people here choose teaching as a career, we
:00:51. > :00:56.should do everything we can to ensure they stay? As we've discussed
:00:57. > :01:00.in this chamber before, Scotland, in common with many other countries,
:01:01. > :01:05.faces a challenge in teacher recruitment. That is why we are
:01:06. > :01:10.increasing the intake into initial teacher education. Why the General
:01:11. > :01:14.teaching Council is encouraging more people into teaching. And looking at
:01:15. > :01:20.different routes into teaching. I suspect Bruce Davidson will next ask
:01:21. > :01:23.me about each verse. I said I am open-minded to looking to ideas of
:01:24. > :01:30.how to get more young people into teaching but we have to make sure
:01:31. > :01:36.these ideas work for Scottish teaching and address the challenges
:01:37. > :01:40.we face. She raises the issue of teach first and let us have a look
:01:41. > :01:44.at it. We learned that in the last five years, nearly 400 talented
:01:45. > :01:48.graduates have left Scotland to teach elsewhere in the UK. That's
:01:49. > :01:51.because they were attracted by the teach first programme. A very
:01:52. > :01:57.successful programme which despite versions operating in 40 countries
:01:58. > :02:00.around the world still hasn't been allowed to set foot in Scotland. 400
:02:01. > :02:05.and views you stick teachers who could be in our schools right now
:02:06. > :02:10.but who aren't because Nicola Sturgeon says so. We have heard in
:02:11. > :02:14.recent days about the huge quality issues surrounding teacher training
:02:15. > :02:17.here. Given that, can the First Minister give me a single good
:02:18. > :02:21.reason why she is stopping new schemes like teach first from
:02:22. > :02:27.running in Scotland and see if they can improve matters? I have met with
:02:28. > :02:31.teach first and I have discussed with them previously whether it
:02:32. > :02:34.would be possible to adapt their schemes to fit with Scottish
:02:35. > :02:38.education. We have a principal in Scottish education that people
:02:39. > :02:43.teaching in our schools should have a teaching qualification. I think
:02:44. > :02:47.that is right. I've visited is cool in London that took part in the
:02:48. > :02:50.London challenge and we look carefully at the London challenge
:02:51. > :02:54.and incorporated some of its learning into our own attainment
:02:55. > :02:58.challenge but the headteacher I spoke to, she was quite sceptical
:02:59. > :03:03.about teach first. One of the things she said about it at the time was
:03:04. > :03:08.that in her view, I appreciate they will be other views about this, that
:03:09. > :03:14.it was quite short-term and there was a difficulty often in retaining
:03:15. > :03:18.those teachers. We will continue to discuss with the teaching profession
:03:19. > :03:23.and local authorities on how to get the best and brightest teachers into
:03:24. > :03:27.our schools. The DTC has been looking at different ways of
:03:28. > :03:32.bringing young people into schools. -- TTC. She doesn't talk about all
:03:33. > :03:35.the fantastic graduates in Scotland who do go into teaching in Scotland.
:03:36. > :03:41.And I certainly want to encourage more of them to do so. We will
:03:42. > :03:45.continue to look at all of these issues as we drive forward with our
:03:46. > :03:47.determination to drive up standards in our schools and closely
:03:48. > :03:53.attainment gap between the richest and poorest.
:03:54. > :04:02.In answer to, give me a good reason why she will not have temp to person
:04:03. > :04:11.here she said, I'll spoke to someone in London but I might have it. --
:04:12. > :04:15.why we'll will not have Teach First. Is there a decision anywhere in a
:04:16. > :04:19.future here? This is a scheme that operate successfully in 40 countries
:04:20. > :04:22.but not here. I have to say that you have to question whether the First
:04:23. > :04:26.Minister really understands the problems that we face because we
:04:27. > :04:30.have 4000 fewer teachers than when she came to power and we're not
:04:31. > :04:35.recruiting nearly enough trainees to fill the gaps. We have 16% of
:04:36. > :04:38.training places the English unfilled, and more than a quarter
:04:39. > :04:43.per maths unfilled. She claims that her government is on top this. Let
:04:44. > :04:47.me ask this, if she is on top of this what percentage of secondary
:04:48. > :04:53.schools say there are lack of teachers is constraining the numbers
:04:54. > :04:56.of subjects they can offer? APPLAUSE
:04:57. > :05:00.I've been clear about the challenges we take in common around teacher
:05:01. > :05:07.recruitment. This is why John Swinney has been working with the...
:05:08. > :05:17.And also why we have increased the intake into it increasing teaching.
:05:18. > :05:20.As I said in relation to Teach First we had initial discussions about
:05:21. > :05:23.whether that programme can be adapted for the particular
:05:24. > :05:26.circumstances of education, so we will continue to look at these
:05:27. > :05:30.issues in the round and drive forward the plans we are taking
:05:31. > :05:35.forward. The national improvement framework which is already seeing
:05:36. > :05:40.the forms around school education, the attainment challenge, the Cayman
:05:41. > :05:46.fund, the equity fund in particular which as we speak is challenging
:05:47. > :05:50.into headteachers -- channelling resources into the hands of
:05:51. > :05:54.headteachers. -- the attainment challenge. Far week after week Ruth
:05:55. > :05:57.Davidson ask questions about this, this government will get on with
:05:58. > :06:02.taking the action that finds the solutions.
:06:03. > :06:06.APPLAUSE What a lot of waffle!
:06:07. > :06:12.APPLAUSE I am very pleased, the First
:06:13. > :06:16.Minister thinks it's legitimate for me to ask questions were failing
:06:17. > :06:22.education system, frankly I think it is my duty to do so. The question I
:06:23. > :06:26.asked how was what proportion of our schools are constrained in the
:06:27. > :06:30.subjects they can offer the pupils because of teachers shortages and
:06:31. > :06:34.the answer is 70%. That was the figure reported to this parliament's
:06:35. > :06:40.education committee, 70% of schools cannot offer the S for people the
:06:41. > :06:47.subject they want to because her government has not recruit the
:06:48. > :06:52.teachers -- DS ball pupils. This week we've seem backslapping of ten
:06:53. > :06:58.years in power when education has been getting worse. This is First
:06:59. > :07:03.Minister who has presided over a teacher recruitment crisis. Was born
:07:04. > :07:06.asleep at the wheel on education. His response of bad test result is
:07:07. > :07:15.that we should just take Scotland out the tests. And who knocks back
:07:16. > :07:19.good ideas like Teach First for reasons she cannot explain of a wife
:07:20. > :07:25.that some woman in London told me. Isn't it time we had our First
:07:26. > :07:29.Minister in charge she does summing about how mistakes. The
:07:30. > :07:33.International summit of teaching expats, but the Deputy First
:07:34. > :07:36.Minister attended just before Easter, recognised there were
:07:37. > :07:39.teaching commitment challenges right across the world including in
:07:40. > :07:44.England. The Ruth Davidson to suggest this is a problem unique to
:07:45. > :07:48.Scotland, I think is unfortunate. Also it is unfortunate that we have
:07:49. > :07:53.to week she stands appear and rightly points to areas where we
:07:54. > :07:57.need to improve, but repeatedly fails to talk about the improvements
:07:58. > :08:01.we are seeing in Scottish education. The fact that in our schools right
:08:02. > :08:08.now our young people are coming out with record high passes, record
:08:09. > :08:11.advanced higher passes, we have more young people achieving national five
:08:12. > :08:14.qualifications, we have record number of young people going into
:08:15. > :08:18.positive destinations, if they do not go into higher or further
:08:19. > :08:21.education they go into training or work and we're starting to see a
:08:22. > :08:33.number of indicators the beginning of the closing of the gap between
:08:34. > :08:36.the richest and poorest. I'm the to admit there was much more to do, but
:08:37. > :08:41.Ruth Davidson should stop doing a disservice to teachers and pupils
:08:42. > :08:46.across this country, by using terms like a failing education system, we
:08:47. > :08:49.do not have a failing education system in Scotland and Ruth Davidson
:08:50. > :08:50.should be ashamed standing up here suggesting we do APPLAUSE
:08:51. > :09:00.. To ask the First Minister what
:09:01. > :09:06.engagement she has planned the rest of the week? Engagements to take for
:09:07. > :09:10.the government's proposal for Scotland. Yesterday the First
:09:11. > :09:14.Minister and I met with the husband of Jo Cox and at that meeting the
:09:15. > :09:19.First Minister rightly agreed that there was no place for abuse of any
:09:20. > :09:23.kind in our political debate. A few weeks ago, prominent internet
:09:24. > :09:28.blogger said of Oliver Mundell, a member of this parliament that he is
:09:29. > :09:33.the sort of publics eager that make you wish his dad had embraced his
:09:34. > :09:36.homosexuality sooner. To the First Minister agree with me that there
:09:37. > :09:46.was no place for homophobia in society like this. Of course. The
:09:47. > :09:52.Kezia Dugdale to get up here and, I'm being serious about this, to
:09:53. > :09:56.suggest that anyway shape or form I would condone homophobia I think is
:09:57. > :10:00.deeply unfortunate. I think on these issues and it was indeed the kind of
:10:01. > :10:04.issue we'll all discussing with Brendan Cox yesterday, all of us
:10:05. > :10:12.would make very clear that that kind of language, any form of abuse of
:10:13. > :10:17.any minority or any politician of that nature is completely
:10:18. > :10:21.unacceptable. I see abuse on a daily basis being held at me, and my
:10:22. > :10:29.colleagues, are people on my side of the political spectrum. I do not
:10:30. > :10:33.hold Kezia Dugdale personally responsible for that. We should all
:10:34. > :10:37.join together and say that that kind of abuse is unacceptable and at
:10:38. > :10:43.least have this as an issue on which we have consensus and not division.
:10:44. > :10:47.APPLAUSE I very much welcome the response
:10:48. > :10:52.from the First Minister. Of course, this was a remark posted on Twitter
:10:53. > :11:00.I Stuart Taylor bold and bright for the website Wings Over Scotland. I
:11:01. > :11:04.called him out on the daily record for his homophobic comment. People
:11:05. > :11:07.should listen to this if there is serious about tackling homophobia
:11:08. > :11:13.and abuse in all its forms. Mr Campbell has written to me via his
:11:14. > :11:22.lawyer to demand a ?10,000 payment for and I quote "Damaged reputation.
:11:23. > :11:24." LAUGHTER I stand fairer to my comment I do not count down to a
:11:25. > :11:31.bully and the Wilmots. Today. There is a catalogue of
:11:32. > :11:34.evidence that demonstrates the bile that Stuart Campbell appears to
:11:35. > :11:40.believe that is acceptable so given that we are in a general election
:11:41. > :11:44.campaign will the First Minister today condemn Wings Over Scotland
:11:45. > :11:48.and anyone who poisons the political debate in a country. I just have
:11:49. > :11:52.condemned anyone who indulges in that kind of language that kind of
:11:53. > :11:58.abuse. I'm not responsible for Stuart Campbell, any more than Kezia
:11:59. > :12:01.Dugdale is responsible for people who have abuse at me in the name of
:12:02. > :12:08.being a supporter of the Labour Party. You know what, let's cut to
:12:09. > :12:11.the chase about what is going on here, Kezia Dugdale is asking me
:12:12. > :12:17.about this today because she hopes it means I won't be able to remind
:12:18. > :12:23.her that her colleagues in Aberdeen yesterday voted for a Tory
:12:24. > :12:27.administration, that. Why think there is we're seeing a political
:12:28. > :12:32.smoke screen. -- what I think we're seeing here is a political smoke
:12:33. > :12:36.screen. I can tell anyone who has abuse on social media or anywhere
:12:37. > :12:42.else and all of us should do that. The abuse I see direct about me on a
:12:43. > :12:46.daily basis would make somebody's hair curl and some of it does come
:12:47. > :12:51.from people professing to be supporters of Kezia Dugdale's party.
:12:52. > :12:54.Do not hold her personally responsible about anything we should
:12:55. > :13:00.all accept that there are people out there who will do that we should all
:13:01. > :13:06.in condemning it. -- we should all unite in condemning it.
:13:07. > :13:12.APPLAUSE When my colleagues do something I
:13:13. > :13:16.disagree with, I take action. LAUGHTER I'm asking the First
:13:17. > :13:22.Minister to do the same. She might want my weight we section, the
:13:23. > :13:27.comment from wings over Scotland was published by an individual who
:13:28. > :13:32.regularly spots hatred, yet SNP politicians continue to positively
:13:33. > :13:38.engage with him and allowed their followers to his belief. The RFU SNP
:13:39. > :13:46.politicians who have called him out, but 44% of SNP M recipes and 50% of
:13:47. > :13:56.SNP MPs have actively encouraged him a lot. I have the list, here. It
:13:57. > :14:01.includes ten government ministers, the finance secretary, the Justice
:14:02. > :14:04.Secretary and the chance bought Minister. Social media can be a
:14:05. > :14:08.force for good but as leaders we have a duty to stand up when it
:14:09. > :14:16.becomes an outlet for aggression, intolerance and hatred. I want to
:14:17. > :14:20.ask the First Minister clear yes or no question, will she today order
:14:21. > :14:28.her politicians and her own ministers to denounce and Sean Wings
:14:29. > :14:32.Over Scotland once and for all? And Sean wings over Scotland. I follow
:14:33. > :14:42.people on Twitter and I am followed by hundreds of thousands of people
:14:43. > :14:47.on twitter. Is Kezia Dugdale really trying to say, if I was too go do
:14:48. > :14:52.Kezia Dugdale's tweet all the tweets of member of her group members of
:14:53. > :14:56.her party, and I came up with the re-tweets that were somehow
:14:57. > :15:01.unsavoury in some way, is she really saying that she would hold herself
:15:02. > :15:09.personally responsible for that? This is absolutely ridiculous line
:15:10. > :15:14.of questioning. I unequivocally condemn abuse of any kind. I've got
:15:15. > :15:18.a list here of abuse that is been held at me by many people who are
:15:19. > :15:23.now Tory councillors in Scotland, and had abuse from people who've
:15:24. > :15:29.been members of the Labour Party, I've been called a fascist and a
:15:30. > :15:35.Nazi, all my party has by Ian Smart who was a senior member of the
:15:36. > :15:42.Labour Party. I did not hold Kezia Dugdale responsible. Let's cut to
:15:43. > :15:49.the chase here, this is a smoke screen being erected by Kezia
:15:50. > :15:55.Dugdale, today, because her party is in disarray, in Civil War in
:15:56. > :16:01.meltdown and as leader of the party she is directing this at me to hide
:16:02. > :16:04.one simple fact, as leader of the Scottish Labour Party she is not in
:16:05. > :16:10.control of her lame party because she cannot stop our council is going
:16:11. > :16:14.into Coalition with Tories up and down the country. That is why she's
:16:15. > :16:17.asking about this today as a smoke screen to protect yourself against
:16:18. > :16:21.the state of Rome party! APPLAUSE
:16:22. > :16:33.-- of her own party. I wonder if the First Minister would
:16:34. > :16:37.join me in welcoming the government's appeal victory against
:16:38. > :16:42.the judicial review which blocked the offshore wind farms, it is good
:16:43. > :16:46.news for Scotland and climate change, green nanograms and job
:16:47. > :16:47.front. Was she also joined me in encouraging those instigated the
:16:48. > :17:02.original action to except the... And idea very much welcome the judgment,
:17:03. > :17:06.I think the development of offshore wind is important not just for
:17:07. > :17:10.environmental reasons but also the economic development reasons in
:17:11. > :17:16.Scotland. I hope this means these developments will continue.
:17:17. > :17:19.Obviously, what happens now is a decision for the RSPB, I hope we
:17:20. > :17:25.will see an end to the court action, but I would say this and hope the
:17:26. > :17:28.RSPB will listen to this, because protecting the environment is really
:17:29. > :17:32.important and they know they have legitimate concerns about this so I
:17:33. > :17:36.would like to say very clearly to them and to others with concerns
:17:37. > :17:40.that we want to make sure we work in a way that allow the development of
:17:41. > :17:43.offshore wind for all the benefit it brings but does so with the
:17:44. > :17:49.protection of the environment very much power month. I hope we can move
:17:50. > :17:54.forward on that basis. The First Minister may be aware that an estate
:17:55. > :17:57.agency based in Edinburgh is demanding a buyer 's premium fee and
:17:58. > :18:02.the sale of property, if prospective buyers do not agree to pay this is
:18:03. > :18:07.offered to the next day he will. Concern about this has been raised
:18:08. > :18:15.by me from a constituent who spent 12 years saving for his own flat and
:18:16. > :18:21.now has to pay buyers age. Do you agree with me that this is an
:18:22. > :18:25.example of unscrupulous shop practice and will head government
:18:26. > :18:29.look into this and assess the legality and morality of this
:18:30. > :18:33.practice, and to the First Minister agree with me that the subject
:18:34. > :18:37.matter of the estate agents act 1989 should be divulged to that the
:18:38. > :18:41.parliament has full powers over the acquisition of land and property?
:18:42. > :18:47.First of all, I'm happy to look into this matter fully. I agree these
:18:48. > :18:51.powers should be devolved, the regulation of the state agents is
:18:52. > :18:54.currently reserved matter because it is covered by the Prince Schumer
:18:55. > :19:04.protection reservation in the Scotland Act. It -- the consumer
:19:05. > :19:06.protection reservation. I understand the Scottish Government has recently
:19:07. > :19:11.received one complaint against charging a buyer 's premium, I will
:19:12. > :19:22.make further enquiries about the point and case there's been raised
:19:23. > :19:26.by him today. There was an announcement that the NHS can no
:19:27. > :19:30.longer guarantee surgery within 12 weeks of diagnosis, it is not in a
:19:31. > :19:35.position to meet the targets, will our government step up to the plate
:19:36. > :19:40.and provide NHS prompting with the funding it should receive under the
:19:41. > :19:45.government's own formula. A formula that is now nearly ten years old and
:19:46. > :19:49.are still not been delivered. We have moved health boards much closer
:19:50. > :19:56.to parity, as it is called, then was the case when we took office, under
:19:57. > :20:03.something which replaced the formula we were contained to this. We think
:20:04. > :20:08.that patients that are waiting for treatment must be seen as quickly as
:20:09. > :20:12.possible, and it is important that patients with the House clinical
:20:13. > :20:17.priorities such as cancer patients, for example, are seen extremely
:20:18. > :20:21.quickly, we are already investing additional resources and be working
:20:22. > :20:25.with NHS Grampian and other health boards about further investment
:20:26. > :20:30.which we will announce very soon. That will help boards bring up the
:20:31. > :20:32.capacity, particularly the elective capacity to make sure that all
:20:33. > :20:36.patients are treated in timely fashion, we see waiting times in our
:20:37. > :20:40.health service now lower than nowhere when this government first
:20:41. > :20:43.took office, but we also see demand on our health service continue to
:20:44. > :20:48.rise merely due to ageing population so we must continue to work with
:20:49. > :20:50.health boards and make sure that they have the required resources, so
:20:51. > :20:51.that they continue to deliver the standard of service that patients
:20:52. > :20:54.deserve.