FMQs: Recap as Humza Yousaf faced the Scottish Parliament
Humza Yousaf faced questioning at FMQs.
FMQs: Follow along live
Key Events
- Humza Yousaf to give his first FMQs since Nicola Sturgeon’s arrest
- Scotland could soon see a junior doctor strike over a pay dispute
- After Police Scotland was described as institutionally racist and misogynist, the force has its first female leader
Let’s quickly catch up on the big story of the week. Nicola Sturgeon was arrested on Sunday as part of a police investigation into party finances.
She was later released without charge but Humza Yousaf faced pressure from within his own party to suspend her party membership. Instead, she was reportedly sent a bunch of flowers.
And yesterday James Dornan, SNP MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, accused the police and media of colluding together over the investigation and described the search of Ms Sturgeon’s home as like “Fred West’s house”.
I wonder if she will show her face on the backbenches at FMQs today? We’re not expecting to see her.
There’s been plenty of other news this week - let’s catch up on what else has happened before FMQs gets started.
Junior doctors in Scotland have voted for three days of strike action in July.
Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Linlithgow, was made transport minister and Mairi McAllan had her cabinet role extended to include transport.
An engineering body said they have known for years the A9 would not be dualled by 2025 like the government promised.
Jo Farrell has become Police Scotland’s first female chief constable after the force was branded institutionally racist and misogynist.
And let’s not forget what is happening down south in Westminster - this morning a damning new report into the partygate scandal found Boris Johnson had misled parliament. If he was still a sitting MP, he should have been suspended for 90 days. You can read the full report here.
FMQs is under way and Douglas Ross, leader of the Scottish Conservatives is up. He is going with the delays to dualling the A9 between Perth and Inverness. Take a look back at what we’ve covered on this earlier this week.
Humza Yousaf says the government is absolutely committed to dualling the A9. He defended the decision to retender the Tomatin to Moy section saying the government has an obligation to provide value for money.
He says it is so important in infrastructure to have value for money and said he will give an update in autumn 2023. He said there is a cast iron guarantee to ensure the road is dualled.