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The Scottish Government launched a public consultation on Permitted development rights to support the provision of new homes on 3 September 2025. The consultation closes on 27 October 2025. The consultation sets out a range of options to simplify planning processes and encourage the provision of new homes in rural areas and town and city centres.

The consultation responses will inform the formation and refinement of any proposals for new or amended permitted development rights. A statutory instrument containing any changes stemming from the consultation would likely be laid in the Scottish Parliament in early 2026.

A summary of the consultation responses will be published in due course. Individual responses will be published where consent has been given.

Participation in the Stonewall Diversity Champions programme is an operational matter for Police Scotland.

The Scottish Government recognises that access to a hot meal during shifts plays an important role in supporting the health and wellbeing of NHS staff.

The provision of healthy food or out-of-hours catering for NHS staff working night shifts is currently managed by individual Health Boards, who are best placed to determine local needs and allocate resources within their respective budgets.

NHS employers are encouraged to ensure, wherever possible, that staff have access to nutritious food, out-of-hours catering and appropriate rest spaces.

Scottish Government have undertaken scoping work to identify potential opportunities for collaboration with Health Boards to expand wellbeing initiatives for all staff working shifts. This will be looked at universally across NHSScotland.

The Marine Directorate currently has three Marine Protection Vessels (Hirta, Jura and Minna) in service. None of these large protection vessels are presently out of service, although individual rigid-inflatable boats (RIBs) that support them are subject to routine maintenance and rotation. At present, one RIB (RIB7) is undergoing repair at McKay Marine in Aberdeen, and one other (RIB9) is held in reserve awaiting redeployment.

Of the Marine Research Vessels, Scotia and Alba na Mara are both operational, supported by four smaller survey craft (Dignity, Temora, Kit Kat and Teip Dearg), all of which are in service.

The Marine Directorate of the Scottish Government currently owns a total of three Marine Protection Vessels (MPVs) — Hirta, Jura and Minna — which form the core of Scotland’s offshore marine protection fleet.

In addition, the Directorate owns nine rigid-inflatable boats (RIBs) assigned to these protection vessels and two inshore RIBs, Ailsa and Iona, which are used within the Inshore Protection Programme.

For scientific and monitoring work, the Directorate owns two Marine Research Vessels (MRVs) — Scotia and Alba na Mara — supported by four smaller research and survey craft: Dignity, Temora, Kit Kat and Teip Dearg.

We want a strong manufacturing sector to help drive Scotland's economic growth and resilience. Our significant investment of £75m in the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) lies at the heart of our ambitions. At the same time, we are developing a Skills Action Plan for Manufacturing to help ensure a steady flow of talent into the sector. This package includes the £2m already committed to Glasgow City Region to support the development of engineering skills programmes in the area and through delivery of the Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service (SMAS) we are helping businesses drive sustainable change by investing in productivity, performance, and people.

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-40963 on 17 October 2025.

The latest official two-child limit statistics show that in April 2025 there were 29,340 households in Scotland affected by the policy.

Over time, the number of households affected by the two-child limit will increase. Scottish Government microsimulation modelling published in March 2025 estimated that our planned mitigation of the two-child limit will result in 20,000 fewer children living in relative poverty in Scotland in 2026-27.

We continue to press the UK Government to remove the two-child limit at source; the limit withheld an estimated cumulative total of £377 million by the end of 2024-25 from Scottish households according to our analysis.

As set out in the response to S6W-40750, £98.6 million (98%) was spent in 2024-25. Of that, £70.1 million (71%) went to local government. The remaining £28.5 million (29%) was spent on the delivery of Fair Start Scotland, supporting the total operating costs of the Directorate for Jobs & Wellbeing Economy, and towards progressing Fair Work.

All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers.

I have asked Teresa Medhurst, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. Her response is as follows:

HMP Glasgow will have a design capacity of 1,344.