That concludes general questions. Before we move to First Minister's questions, I invite

Members to join me in welcoming to the gallery the right honourable Catherine Gotany-Hara MP,

Speaker of the National mission to the United Kingdom. Thank you. The next item of business is First Minister's questions.

At question number one, I call Douglas Ross.

Thank you very much, President. The Daily Mail has today reported that SMP Minister, Jenny Galruth, just sat behind

the First Minister, may have broken the ministerial code. The former Transport Minister,

who Humza Yusseh, promoted to be Cabinet Secretary for Education, changed plans that

had been agreed for 18 months with just weeks to go. The original plans would

have seen a small closure to rail services around her constituency for a few days just after

Christmas last year to allow for essential upgrades to happen. Jenny Gilruth appears to

have forced a change in order to give preferential treatment to her constituents

at a higher cost to taxpayers and far more disruption to passengers.

Does the First Minister think it is acceptable for a Minister to make a political decision for her own benefit

instead of acting in the interests of all of Scotland.

First Minister.

I say to Douglas Ross, he is making very serious accusations indeed.

Of course, if there are any accusations of the ministerial code being broken, of course, they will be appropriately investigated.

So that is an accusation that Douglas Ross is making, of course, will appropriately investigate it.

But I don't believe the way that Douglas Ross has characterised that particular situation to be correct at all.

On Sunday, the 21st of May, Scotland's new timetable

came into effect for this year. This is another important step towards Scotland's railways

as it continues to recover. So these timetable changes, of course, happen regularly in terms of when they happened when

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