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The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 2 July 2025
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Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]

Portfolio Question Time

Meeting date: 4 June 2025

Craig Hoy

Dumfries and Galloway youth council is an organisation that is run for and by young people. Last year, it highlighted bullying as one of its top five major local concerns. As the minister said, online bullying does not end at the school gates; it is often hidden and can cause untold misery for its victims every hour of the day.

In response, Dumfries and Galloway Council has announced a review of bullying, which is taking the views of schools, children, young people, parents and carers into account. However, councils cannot tackle that massive problem alone. Will the minister commit to ensuring that schools have the resources—both guidance and funding—to tackle concerns about online bullying? Will she update the Parliament on what engagement the Scottish Government has had with the United Kingdom Government to ensure that social media giants do everything that they can to protect Scotland’s children from online harm?

Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]

Empowering Entrepreneurs and Innovators

Meeting date: 4 June 2025

Craig Hoy

I think that we have corrected the record, but I have slightly lost my train of thought.

The minister is talking about young and ambitious entrepreneurs who are global in their mindset. Would she advise a young, ambitious, globally minded entrepreneur to base themselves on one of Scotland’s islands at the moment?

Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]

Empowering Entrepreneurs and Innovators

Meeting date: 4 June 2025

Craig Hoy

Will the member take an intervention?

Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]

Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (Public Sector)

Meeting date: 29 May 2025

Craig Hoy

Despite the minister’s amnesia, £95 million in Barnett consequentials for RAAC remediation was given to the Government, but it was absorbed into the Scottish Government’s general revenue budget rather than being earmarked specifically for addressing the RAAC crisis. That implies that, now, remedial works can proceed only at a pace that the Government can afford rather than based on urgency. Given the safety concerns and the substantial costs faced by local authorities, what steps will the minister take to ensure that that dedicated funding is restored? In other words, where has the RAAC money gone?

Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]

Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (Public Sector)

Meeting date: 29 May 2025

Craig Hoy

On a point of order, Presiding Officer. I seek to put this on the record and to find out from you how the record can be corrected. A freedom of information release last year revealed that

“The Scottish Government received £97.1 million in Barnett consequentials following the UK Government’s announcement in March 2020 to remediate”

non-aluminium composite material—non-ACM—cladding systems

“on residential buildings ... where leaseholders would incur the costs or where the costs were a threat to the financial stability of the social housing provider.”

I mistook that cladding system for RAAC, so I would like to correct the record.

Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]

General Question Time

Meeting date: 29 May 2025

Craig Hoy

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions the education secretary has had with national health service boards and local authorities regarding the levying of fees for hospital teaching costs for children who routinely attend independent schools. (S6O-04726)

Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]

Galloway and Ayrshire National Park Proposal

Meeting date: 29 May 2025

Craig Hoy

I welcome the decision, given the clear level of concern among campaigners, stakeholders and local communities. I recognise that the consultation led to real concern and anxiety among those communities, which have long been neglected by the Scottish National Party. Will the Government now undertake to come forward with a real plan for investment in rural areas that can deliver for communities in Dumfries and Galloway and East Ayrshire to support tourism, agriculture and infrastructure in the south of Scotland, which the SNP has failed to do in the past 18 years?

Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]

NHS Grampian

Meeting date: 29 May 2025

Craig Hoy

Will the minister answer the question that he deftly failed to answer from Tess White? What, specifically, will the trigger point be to escalate this failing health board to stage 5?

Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]

General Question Time

Meeting date: 29 May 2025

Craig Hoy

Sick children who attend independent schools but who are being treated in hospital are being denied access to education unless they pay £115 an hour for teaching that would be free if they went to a state school. Lawrence, the son of two of my constituents, was diagnosed with leukaemia in March and he will not return to the Compass school until the autumn. His parents already pay tax towards state education that they do not use and VAT on school fees. They are required to rent a flat to be near the hospital where their son is being treated.

Lawrence has already had the distress of watching other children in his ward receive education that the City of Edinburgh Council provides, but which he cannot access. That is discrimination that cannot be compliant with the Scottish Government’s policy of getting it right for every child, nor with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Will the cabinet secretary urgently look at the Scottish Government’s guidance to councils on the issue and, if necessary, provide them with additional resources to ensure universal access to education for all sick children, regardless of where they are normally educated?

Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]

Decision Time

Meeting date: 27 May 2025

Craig Hoy

On a point of order, Presiding Officer. My app appeared to freeze. I would have voted yes. I am not sure whether my vote has been recorded.