:00:21. > :00:28.Hello and a warm welcome to the Scottish parliament here at
:00:29. > :00:39.Holyrood. We are by adjusting the Autumn Statement here and there will
:00:40. > :00:52.be a statement this afternoon. Let us cross to the chamber and find out
:00:53. > :01:07.what is going on. Speaker of the Pakistani Assembly. We now move to
:01:08. > :01:14.First Minister's Questions. To us the First Minister what engagements
:01:15. > :01:22.she has planned today. I will reply to Jeremy Corbyn's e-mail asking me
:01:23. > :01:31.about questions at prime ministers questions. He says we have achieved
:01:32. > :01:39.much together. I think he is being modest. He is doing more to destroy
:01:40. > :01:45.the Labour Party than I ever did. Alongside the Chancellor's misguided
:01:46. > :01:51.statement yesterday, there were updated or oil figures. They made
:01:52. > :01:56.the grim reading. Yesterday was a significant day, but so it is
:01:57. > :01:59.today. It is an important anniversary because two years ago
:02:00. > :02:04.today, the First Minister published a White Paper on independence. In
:02:05. > :02:11.that document the First Minister promised a future free from Tory
:02:12. > :02:14.austerity based on oil revenue of ?8 billion a year at the point of
:02:15. > :02:20.independence. Come the First Minister say how much oil revenues
:02:21. > :02:27.are expected to be this year? I have to say on the day after Labour's
:02:28. > :02:31.part and is in the better together campaign, otherwise known as the
:02:32. > :02:38.Tories, and at plans to cut the budget in real terms by ?1.5 billion
:02:39. > :02:43.by the end of this decade. For cosier Dugdale to stand up and speak
:02:44. > :02:52.about cuts is breathtaking hypocrisy, Presiding Officer. This
:02:53. > :02:56.is a challenging time for the oil and gas sector which is why the task
:02:57. > :02:59.force I established earlier this year is working hard to support the
:03:00. > :03:06.industry at this time, but every time the ball here Labour illegally
:03:07. > :03:12.crowing about the challenges in the oil and gas sector, what they
:03:13. > :03:22.realise is how little Labour care about people's and livelihoods. For
:03:23. > :03:27.Labour, or it is about is getting one over on the SNP. If cosier
:03:28. > :03:32.Dugdale wants to cast her mind back to the pre-referendum period, it
:03:33. > :03:37.might give her something else to ruminate on. -- kez the doorbell.
:03:38. > :03:44.Does she remember when the better together parties told us that the
:03:45. > :03:51.only way to protect jobs in H MRC was to vote no and can she explain
:03:52. > :03:55.why after the referendum the UK Government announced plans to slash
:03:56. > :04:05.these jobs? Perhaps she might want to reflect on that. I was born in
:04:06. > :04:12.Aberdeen and I grew up in the north-east. I know the damage that
:04:13. > :04:16.the decline in these industries can cause. Do not question my motivation
:04:17. > :04:24.when I bring that subject to this chamber. I asked a very specific
:04:25. > :04:28.question about revenues and the problem for the First Minister is
:04:29. > :04:32.she was not a wee bit wrong, she did not tell a half-truth, she did not
:04:33. > :04:39.tell quarter truth, she was not out by a factor of ten, 20 or 30. The
:04:40. > :04:45.SNP oil figures were wrong by more than a factor of 60 because
:04:46. > :04:52.according to the OBE are, gas revenues are expected to be ?130
:04:53. > :04:56.million. Residing officer, people won more than that on the lottery
:04:57. > :05:00.and we know that from today's and gas survey things will not get much
:05:01. > :05:07.better any time soon. So can the First Minister tell us where the
:05:08. > :05:16.SNP's failure lies on oil? Was it their inability to do the numbers or
:05:17. > :05:20.the inability to tell the truth? The topography is breathtaking because
:05:21. > :05:25.back in the period that she is talking about, she was in a campaign
:05:26. > :05:31.with the Conservatives and the Conservative government at the time
:05:32. > :05:34.were forecasting oil prices to be even higher than was the case on the
:05:35. > :05:48.part of the Scottish Government. I have to say to Kezia Dugdale I
:05:49. > :05:54.question the motivation of a party who wanted to leave our finances in
:05:55. > :05:59.the hands of George Osborne and now they want to complain about cuts.
:06:00. > :06:04.The choice facing Scotland today is the same as the choice has always
:06:05. > :06:08.been. Do we allow the Tories to control our finances or do we take
:06:09. > :06:19.our destiny into our own hands? I know what I prefer. The First
:06:20. > :06:26.Minister accuses me of the blog received. She is the one that
:06:27. > :06:31.promised a second oil boom and it will be bad enough if the government
:06:32. > :06:41.responsible for collecting our taxes have been out by 10% or 20%, but the
:06:42. > :06:45.First Minister was out by 6000%. 6000% on the money needed to fund
:06:46. > :06:53.our schools, hospitals and pensions. The government's ability to get
:06:54. > :06:57.these things right really matters to our future because this parliament
:06:58. > :07:01.will be responsible for more tax and spending than ever before. We will
:07:02. > :07:06.have a chance to make different choices and take a break from Tory
:07:07. > :07:11.austerity. So we can't ever again be in a position where our
:07:12. > :07:17.government's numbers are so wrong on such a grand scale. What we need is
:07:18. > :07:21.a real financial watchdog with teeth, not the puppy that John
:07:22. > :07:25.Swinney is proposing. So will be First Minister back our plan for a
:07:26. > :07:32.Scottish Office for Budget Responsibility? Well, as Kezia
:07:33. > :07:35.Dugdale should know if she has bothered to read the draft
:07:36. > :07:49.legislation, the fiscal commission will have a veto over what John
:07:50. > :07:51.Swinney brings. The day after George Osborne's budget, a budget that
:07:52. > :07:57.announced plans to reduce the revenue budget of this parliament by
:07:58. > :08:04.?1.5 billion in real terms over the remainder of this decade, what does
:08:05. > :08:08.Kezia Dugdale come here and do? She doesn't criticise the Conservatives,
:08:09. > :08:17.she wants to play politics with the SNP instead. It is that approach,
:08:18. > :08:22.being on an arm with the Conservatives whilst this party
:08:23. > :08:25.stands up for Scotland that has left Labour in the doldrums. If she wants
:08:26. > :08:30.to know some real facts about the oil and gas sector, she will not
:08:31. > :08:36.take my word for it. Let us hear what oil and gas UK have had to say
:08:37. > :08:45.yesterday about the OBE are. They believe there is room for greater
:08:46. > :08:49.optimism, given the fact that production will increase the first
:08:50. > :08:53.time in more than a and will continue to increase for the
:08:54. > :09:00.remainder of the decade. We will get on with the job of supporting the
:09:01. > :09:04.industry and the Scottish economy, standing up for Scotland against the
:09:05. > :09:07.Conservatives and we will leave the Labour Party to the slow painful
:09:08. > :09:19.death that they are currently experiencing. If I wanted real facts
:09:20. > :09:25.about the work and gas industry, the First Minister is the last person I
:09:26. > :09:30.would be going to thought it. The idea that you could have a Scotland
:09:31. > :09:34.with high public spending, lower taxes, a stable economy and
:09:35. > :09:41.reasonable government debt was wishful a year ago. Now it is
:09:42. > :09:47.deluded. Those aren't mine berry-macro my words, they are the
:09:48. > :09:52.words of Alex Bell -- those are not my words, they are the words of Alex
:09:53. > :09:57.Bell who drafted the White Paper. We are on the cusp of major change.
:09:58. > :10:03.With new powers heading our way, Scottish politics on the ber be the
:10:04. > :10:06.same again. This parliament needs in partial independent oversight of
:10:07. > :10:11.government finances. Scots cannot be let down like this ever again. The
:10:12. > :10:15.question for the First Minister is this, with all her power and her
:10:16. > :10:26.majority in this, with all her power and her majority in displays and
:10:27. > :10:38.eight her ways? I think we will recall that it was not at the recent
:10:39. > :10:52.Labour Party conference where the word change was emblazoned. Kezia
:10:53. > :10:57.Dugdale quoted... I am being heckled to say that the Liberal Democrats
:10:58. > :11:04.need to change their ways and I'm happy to say that. Kezia Dugdale
:11:05. > :11:15.quoted a former adviser to the Scottish Government. I enjoy this
:11:16. > :11:20.quote from a former adviser of Kezia Dugdale. If Scottish Labour work out
:11:21. > :11:23.football team, they would be in division three, struggling to avoid
:11:24. > :11:31.relegation. That was just before he talked about the stupidity of the
:11:32. > :11:40.Labour Party under Tech Barack Obama. I am the SNP will continue to
:11:41. > :11:44.stand up for Scotland and we want leave the Labour Party to where ever
:11:45. > :11:54.it is they have ended up in Scottish politics. To ask the First Minister
:11:55. > :12:03.when she will next meet the Prime Minister. I will next meet the Prime
:12:04. > :12:05.Minister on the 14th of December. Yesterday the Chancellor unveiled
:12:06. > :12:19.the biggest home building programme the 1970s. Responding, the Scottish
:12:20. > :12:33.housing body said... Supporting first time buyers onto the property
:12:34. > :12:38.ladder. It is in marked contrast to what is happening here, where there
:12:39. > :12:52.are budget reductions of 50% and properties will be less available.
:12:53. > :12:57.What an utter cheat for a Scottish Conservative to stand in this
:12:58. > :13:06.chamber the day of the George Osborne's cuts and to utter the work
:13:07. > :13:09.cuts, it is unbelievable. This government has consistently
:13:10. > :13:12.supported the help to buy scheme. We have done in partnership with homes
:13:13. > :13:18.for Scotland and we will continue to do so. John Swinney will outline our
:13:19. > :13:21.budget plans in this chamber in three weeks' time. I have already
:13:22. > :13:27.said in the next session of parliament it will be the aim of
:13:28. > :13:32.this parliament if we are re-elected to build 50,000 affordable homes. We
:13:33. > :13:37.have a target of 30,000 in this parliament which we are on track to
:13:38. > :13:42.meet. One of the things I take issue with in terms of the plans announced
:13:43. > :13:47.by the UK Government yesterday, yes, they are about building homes and I
:13:48. > :13:51.welcome that, but there is no commitment whatsoever on the part of
:13:52. > :13:56.the UK Government to building new social homes for people who need to
:13:57. > :14:00.rent and that says everything about the Tories. They are not interested
:14:01. > :14:04.in helping the poorest and most vulnerable in our society. All they
:14:05. > :14:15.are interested in doing is harming them even further. Only the SNP
:14:16. > :14:21.could find grievance in a 14% increase in the Scottish capital
:14:22. > :14:25.budget. If we had listened to the First Minister's fiscal autonomy
:14:26. > :14:30.plans, we would be sitting here with a ?20 billion black hole in
:14:31. > :14:35.Scotland's finances. If we get back to housing, the truth is that the
:14:36. > :14:41.number of new homes built each year is down 40% from the time the SNP
:14:42. > :14:46.took office. 10,000 fewer homes built in Scotland, and we know now
:14:47. > :14:51.that her ministers are about to half the help to buy scheme in Scotland,
:14:52. > :14:57.ripping the ?5 million worth of help away from first-time buyers. In
:14:58. > :15:00.short, this SNP government is slashing support for home-building
:15:01. > :15:06.and slashing support for home-buying. I know the First
:15:07. > :15:09.Minister wants to make a point about George Osborne, but there are
:15:10. > :15:12.thousands of people out there trying their best to get on the housing
:15:13. > :15:21.ladder. Why is she cutting their support?
:15:22. > :15:28.Let me pick up Ruth Davidson and the point she made about the capital
:15:29. > :15:31.budget. She will be well aware of this, I'm sure, but she won't want
:15:32. > :15:33.the people of Scotland to hear this. Despite the Chancellor yesterday
:15:34. > :15:36.claiming to increase capital spending, the fact is that
:15:37. > :15:43.Scotland's capital budget in 2019, 2020, based on yesterday's plans,
:15:44. > :15:45.will be ?600 million on a 17% lower than Scotland's capital budget was
:15:46. > :15:50.in the year that's David Cameron became Prime Minister. That is the
:15:51. > :15:55.reality of the spending plans of this Conservative government. The
:15:56. > :16:00.point about housing is this. We have helped thousands of people into home
:16:01. > :16:01.ownership through our help to buy scheme, through our shared equity
:16:02. > :16:36.scheme, and we will continue to Yesterday, the Chancellor made the
:16:37. > :16:42.disgraceful decision to pull funding from the development of carbon
:16:43. > :16:48.capture and storage technology in the UK, which could have created the
:16:49. > :18:40.world's first commercial scale gas powered plant in Peterhead.
:18:41. > :18:45.world's first commercial scale gas something else? A cross-party
:18:46. > :18:50.campaign led by my Liberal Democrat colleague has persuaded the
:18:51. > :18:53.Chancellor to add ?6 million to mental health spending in England.
:18:54. > :18:56.Bearing in mind the news this week about child and adolescent mental
:18:57. > :19:01.health services in Grampian and Tayside, will the First Minister
:19:02. > :19:07.guaranteed to use the new NHS money for the mental health services here?
:19:08. > :19:10.Thank you for raising this issue. It is important. He will understand
:19:11. > :19:14.that John Swinney is due to bring forward his budget in three weeks
:19:15. > :19:18.and Parliament will hear the government's spending plans in that
:19:19. > :19:21.budget and we will have a chance to scrutinise and debate those plans.
:19:22. > :19:25.But he is correct to point to the importance of mental health. He will
:19:26. > :19:28.be aware that we are already committed to investing an additional
:19:29. > :19:32.?100 million over the next five years to help equip the health
:19:33. > :19:36.service to be able to provide the support and treatments that is
:19:37. > :19:39.needed. That funding will deliver a three-year programme to support the
:19:40. > :19:43.child and adolescent mental health service workforce, including further
:19:44. > :19:47.training and more specialised supervisors. It will invest money to
:19:48. > :19:51.improve mental health support and primary care and also support the
:19:52. > :19:54.development of innovative approaches in mental health delivery, including
:19:55. > :19:58.the provision of support for people who need mental health care in
:19:59. > :20:02.community settings. We are also developing a new improvement
:20:03. > :20:05.programme which is working with all NHS boards to identify a plan for
:20:06. > :20:10.how the performance can be improved. We are doing all of that,
:20:11. > :20:14.but I would say to him that I recognise the need for us always to
:20:15. > :20:17.be looking to do more. The fact is, more people today are accessing
:20:18. > :20:19.mental health services. That is a good thing, because we should
:20:20. > :20:24.encourage people to come forward. When they do, we need to make sure
:20:25. > :20:30.the NHS is providing the services and treatments they need. I look
:20:31. > :20:34.forward to the budget in due course, because if I can gently say to the
:20:35. > :20:38.First Minister, we have heard an awful lot of that before and it is
:20:39. > :20:43.simply not enough. We asked the health minister in June about the
:20:44. > :20:48.shocking waiting times back then. He said he had a recovery plan. Since
:20:49. > :20:54.then, it has actually got worse. 50% of young people in Grampian don't
:20:55. > :21:01.get seen on time. That rises to a staggering 70% in Tayside. That is
:21:02. > :21:06.hundreds of teenagers waiting for months to get help. They need it
:21:07. > :21:11.urgently. Will she access, and I hope she does, that things cannot
:21:12. > :21:16.carry on like this? Will she gave an early commitment that this new NHS
:21:17. > :21:20.money will be committed to mental health? As I have said, we will
:21:21. > :21:24.bring forward the budget plans in our budget. That is a reasonable
:21:25. > :21:30.thing to say and Willie Rennie well of course have the opportunity to
:21:31. > :21:34.ask questions when John Swinney outlines the plans to parliament in
:21:35. > :21:37.three weeks. I am trying to be consensual here because I think it
:21:38. > :21:40.is an important issue and I am determined that the plans we have
:21:41. > :21:45.set out under the plans we set out in future will be commensurate to
:21:46. > :21:49.the scale of the challenge that we face. Willie Rennie spoke rightly
:21:50. > :21:51.about the number of health boards that are facing significant
:21:52. > :21:54.challenges and we are establishing an improvement scheme to work with
:21:55. > :21:58.them to address those challenges. I will not repeat what I have said in
:21:59. > :22:03.my previous answer about the money that we have committed already over
:22:04. > :22:06.the next five years, but we are seeing some progress towards what we
:22:07. > :22:13.need to achieve here. In the last year, we have seen a 4.5% increase
:22:14. > :22:17.in clinical staff and since 2009, the workforce has increased by more
:22:18. > :22:22.than one quarter. These are the steps we need to take and we need to
:22:23. > :22:25.make sure we continue to have the capacity in place in our health
:22:26. > :22:32.boards to meet the increasing demand for mental health services that the
:22:33. > :22:35.country is facing. To ask the First Minister what the impact on Scotland
:22:36. > :22:39.will be of the combined Autumn Statement and Comprehensive Spending
:22:40. > :22:42.Review. The spending review represents a continuation of the UK
:22:43. > :22:46.Government's failed austerity programme. As a result of the UK
:22:47. > :22:55.Government's cuts, funding for day-to-day in Scotland will be cuts
:22:56. > :22:59.by over ?1.5 billion in real terms. These follow cuts are damaging,
:23:00. > :23:03.needless and will continue to hit the poorest hardest. What is to be
:23:04. > :23:07.welcomed from yesterday's statement is the Chancellor's U-turn of a tax
:23:08. > :23:12.credits. This is a change that we repeatedly called for a few weeks
:23:13. > :23:17.ago. I called on people to unite to persuade the Chancellor to change
:23:18. > :23:24.his mind. However, not withstanding that U-turn, the cuts to the welfare
:23:25. > :23:27.budget or set to continue and we want to scrutinise very carefully
:23:28. > :23:31.where the axe would from those cuts will fall. I thank the First
:23:32. > :23:37.Minister for her answer. She will know that last May the Tories
:23:38. > :23:41.obtained the lowest vote in Scotland since 80 65. Does she agree that was
:23:42. > :23:50.it makes no economic sense for Tories to have further Scots us cuts
:23:51. > :23:56.in Scotland, it also shows their contempt for Scottish democracy. I
:23:57. > :24:00.saw a Flickr of memory at the mention of 1865. Jason Callow is
:24:01. > :24:04.probably the only member of the Tory benches that still remembers the
:24:05. > :24:15.heyday of the Scottish Conservatives. I think I just walk
:24:16. > :24:19.Mr Kiloh up. The Tories are going back to 1865 is what Jackson Kiloh
:24:20. > :24:23.has just shouted at me across the chamber. Something they went there a
:24:24. > :24:29.long time ago. Back to the important point. The member raises an
:24:30. > :24:33.important point. Rather than supporting economic growth and
:24:34. > :24:36.prosperity, the Chancellor's cuts will undermine the measures this
:24:37. > :24:39.government is taking to support households and businesses. We will
:24:40. > :24:43.continue to do everything within our power to protect the most vulnerable
:24:44. > :24:47.from those austerity measures and that will very much be our focus as
:24:48. > :24:54.we draw up spending plans ahead of the Scottish Budget next month. Can
:24:55. > :24:57.I welcome the Chancellor's U-turn on tax credits? The First Minister has
:24:58. > :25:01.said that the Scottish Government will mitigate against UK austerity
:25:02. > :25:08.measures. There are of course new powers coming to the parliament, so
:25:09. > :25:11.can she tell us of any specific measures she will take to combat
:25:12. > :25:17.Tory austerity? We will bring forward our proposals will budget
:25:18. > :25:19.and then we will bring forward proposals in our manifesto.
:25:20. > :25:23.Hopefully label will do the same. Let me tell Jackie Baillie what is
:25:24. > :25:28.committed already doing to mitigate Tory welfare cuts. We are spending
:25:29. > :25:33.?104 million this year to make sure nobody has to pay the bedroom tax.
:25:34. > :25:39.Interestingly, Labour in Wales is not making sure nobody has to pay
:25:40. > :25:44.the bedroom tax. We set up the Scottish welfare fund. We are
:25:45. > :25:47.supporting advice agencies to give people the advice that they need.
:25:48. > :25:51.This government will continue to do everything we can to help the most
:25:52. > :25:55.vulnerable in the face of further cuts from the Conservatives. We will
:25:56. > :25:59.leave Jackie Baillie over the next few months to continue to argue that
:26:00. > :26:06.instead of investing in our public services, in our economy, in support
:26:07. > :26:08.for the vulnerable, we should be spending ?167 billion on Trident
:26:09. > :26:12.nuclear weapons. She seems to be in a manner it of one in her own
:26:13. > :26:21.benches these days, which says it all about the stupidity of this
:26:22. > :26:24.position she takes. Can be First Minister tell us what level of
:26:25. > :26:29.budget cuts will now be faced by those, had we followed the SNP's
:26:30. > :26:37.policy of full fiscal autonomy. What can you say to the hypocrisy? Its
:26:38. > :26:42.knows no bounds. Can I just remind the chamber of what more Joe Fraser
:26:43. > :26:49.and all his colleagues in the Tory and Labour benches said before?
:26:50. > :26:54.Before the referendum? We had to vote no to protect welfare. Now, ?12
:26:55. > :26:59.billion has been cut from the welfare budget. We had to vote no to
:27:00. > :27:03.protect Scotland's's budget. Yesterday, 6% real terms cuts to the
:27:04. > :27:10.Scottish revenue budget over the remainder of this decade. I will
:27:11. > :27:13.continue to make the case that it is better to control our own resources
:27:14. > :27:15.with independence than it ever will be to leave our resources in the
:27:16. > :27:22.hands of Murdo Fraser and his colleagues. To ask the First
:27:23. > :27:24.Minister whether the Scottish Government will hold an inquiry into
:27:25. > :27:31.undercover police operations in Scotland. The office of surveillance
:27:32. > :27:34.Commissioners which carries out annual inspections of police
:27:35. > :27:37.Scotland's undercover activities has never raised an issue with Scottish
:27:38. > :27:41.ministers. The Scottish Government is take all allegations of police
:27:42. > :27:44.impropriety seriously, and should there be evidence of such activity,
:27:45. > :27:48.I can assure the chamber that appropriate action will be taken. Of
:27:49. > :27:51.course, the government has already taken a range of action to ensure
:27:52. > :27:57.strong safeguards are in place regarding undercover activity.
:27:58. > :28:01.Theresa May has established a pitch that enquiry to examine the role of
:28:02. > :28:06.undercover policing in England and Wales since 96 D8. As policing is
:28:07. > :28:09.devolved, Scotland is not included in the enquiry. Following
:28:10. > :28:18.yesterday's revelations on Scotland's monitoring of their
:28:19. > :28:22.sources, and of the undercover officer who monitored the G8 summit,
:28:23. > :28:28.there is now growing concern about the role of undercover police past
:28:29. > :28:31.and present. Is the First Minister seriously telling us that under a
:28:32. > :28:34.Tory Home Secretary, there will be an enquiry in England, but under her
:28:35. > :28:43.leadership, the truth and justice will not be offered to victims in
:28:44. > :28:47.Scotland? The difference... The difference is this, which actually I
:28:48. > :28:52.am pretty sure Neil Findlay knows about. A Majesty 's Inspectorate of
:28:53. > :28:57.Conservatory Boylan on Wales produced a report in 2030 which
:28:58. > :28:59.recommended actions to ensure strong safeguards in place regarding
:29:00. > :29:05.undercover activity. But the office of surveillance Commissioners
:29:06. > :29:09.carries out annual inspections of Scotland's activity and has never
:29:10. > :29:12.raised an issue. Either directly with Scottish ministers or through
:29:13. > :29:17.its annual report about police Scotland or about the legacy in
:29:18. > :29:20.relation to undercover activity. If these concerns are raised with us,
:29:21. > :29:23.of course we will act appropriately and of course we will carefully
:29:24. > :29:28.consider the conclusions of the Pitchford enquiry. If there are
:29:29. > :29:31.measures that can be delivered in Scotland sensibly, we will discuss
:29:32. > :29:35.it with police Scotland and other interested stakeholders how they
:29:36. > :29:37.might best be permitted. To ask the First Minister what the Scottish
:29:38. > :29:43.Government is doing to eradicate abuse of patients in care homes. No
:29:44. > :29:47.care home residents should ever be subject to any form of harm and
:29:48. > :29:50.abuse, and it should be remembered that the vast majority of care homes
:29:51. > :29:54.deliver high quality care to the residents. The care Inspectorate
:29:55. > :29:57.investigates complaints against registered care homes and carries
:29:58. > :30:03.out a rigorous inspection programme. Complaints about registered social
:30:04. > :30:06.are investigated. Through our current health Bill, we are
:30:07. > :30:12.legislating to bring forward a new offence of wilful neglect, and that
:30:13. > :30:14.will improve grid powers and complaints procedures and ensure
:30:15. > :30:19.effective legal action can be taken against a care worker or care
:30:20. > :30:22.provider wherever necessary. I thank the First Minister for that answer.
:30:23. > :30:26.The chief executive of Scottish care is reported to offset the rise in
:30:27. > :30:29.abuse allegations referred to in an article in the Sunday Post might be
:30:30. > :30:33.down to a greater awareness of how to report issues. Notwithstanding
:30:34. > :30:36.this, does she agree that abuse in any circumstances cannot be
:30:37. > :30:38.tolerated and that the increased frailty and demands a care home
:30:39. > :30:47.residents demands a workforce that is better trained and paid? I agree.
:30:48. > :30:56.I completely agree that abuse in any circumstances cannot be tolerated.
:30:57. > :31:01.Can somebody stop shouting across the chamber? Should it occur, I will
:31:02. > :31:04.make clear that we expect employers, the care Inspectorate and the
:31:05. > :31:09.Scottish 's social services Council to take a very firm approach,
:31:10. > :31:14.improving workforce skills and recruiting and retaining the correct
:31:15. > :31:22.people is essential. These are key areas for development and strategy
:31:23. > :31:30.and we are also working with the SSSC to further progress of work
:31:31. > :31:35.practices. There we have it. The close of questions to the First
:31:36. > :31:39.Minister. The subject arising out of the Chancellor's Autumn statements,
:31:40. > :31:43.rather vigorous attack that he made on the subject of oil and oil
:31:44. > :31:49.revenues. Equally vigorous attacks today coming from the First Minister
:31:50. > :31:53.'s opponents. She chose to attack herself, accusing opponents of
:31:54. > :31:56.hypocrisy on the subject of cuts. We will have more on the topic of
:31:57. > :32:01.spending in the statement from John Swinney this afternoon. Catch-up
:32:02. > :32:12.with that on the BBC. I will hand you over to the daily politics.
:32:13. > :32:17.to go and get what people wanted from Parliament, in terms of Acts
:32:18. > :32:19.of Parliament, etc, to argue within Government for the right budget.
:32:20. > :32:22.There could be any number of reasons why reforming or chaging
:32:23. > :32:26.It is as an institution, held in very high regard by the public.
:32:27. > :32:29.It could be health care professionals, think Resistant to
:32:30. > :32:33.change because they think they understand how it works,
:32:34. > :32:37.Or could it be something to do with politicians themselves?
:32:38. > :32:40.You do some things at the start that you probably wouldn't do at the end.
:32:41. > :32:43.And you definitely do some things at the end that you definitely
:32:44. > :32:47.For me, for example, I went through a journey, personally, where you are
:32:48. > :32:50.trying to stabilise the system because it felt out of control, so
:32:51. > :32:54.you set a lot off targets and did a lot of performance management and
:32:55. > :32:56.then you come to the realisation that that only gets
:32:57. > :33:01.you part of the way because what you have to do, you actually have to
:33:02. > :33:03.devolve power and give it away.