First Minister's Questions 14 November 2024

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🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

First Minster John Swinney MSP takes questions from party leaders and other MSPs in this weekly question time. Topics covered this week included, smart electricity meters in Scotland, Scottish Government's response to reports that its spending on private consultants has almost doubled in the space of five years and the Scottish Government's response to reported concerns that its proposed formula for calculating rent controls in the Housing (Scotland) Bill will require above-inflation rent rises for hundreds of thousands of renters, thus not tackling unaffordable rents.

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0:00.0	Thank you, Minister.
0:02.0	That concludes general questions.
0:05.0	We move on to the next item of business, which is First Minister's questions.
0:09.0	Question number one.
0:11.0	I call Russell Finley.
0:12.0	A year ago, almost to the day, Michael Matheson stood in this chamber
0:18.0	to deliver wholly unbelievable excuses about billing taxpayers
0:23.0	for his £11,000 iPad bill. It seems the SMP have learned nothing from that scandal.
0:31.5	Michael Matheson misused taxpayers' money to watch football on his iPad. Neil Gray did it to watch football in person.
0:40.8	The SMP has substituted one shamed Health and Social Care Secretary
0:44.5	for someone even less serious.
0:48.1	Neil Gray charged taxpayers for ministerial limos
0:51.2	to watch his football team.
0:53.2	So what is it with SMP ministers taking taxpayers for a ride?
0:59.7	First Minister.
1:02.9	It's always been the case that ministers will attend sporting, cultural, societal and community events around the country. Indeed, I would expect
1:13.6	ministers to do that because they have got to be in contact with various stakeholders around
1:19.6	the country. So ministers will continue to engage on issues of importance with groupings around
1:25.6	the country.
1:26.6	Russell Finley.
1:29.0	Thank you. These luxury cars, they're not free taxes to the football for SMP ministers.
1:35.3	Neil Gray claims he attended these games to discuss essential government business.
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