The next item of business is First Minister's questions.

At question number one I call Douglas Ross.

Thank you very much.

We will suspend business at this point.

Thank you.

Thank you.

This Parliament rightly prides itself on being open and accessible, and of course, we

want to maintain that. Visitors are welcomed into the gallery to watch their elected representatives

at work. But far too regularly, disruption is causing members to lose the opportunity to ask

questions and to represent their constituents' interests.

I'd like to assure members that work is underway on a range of measures that may be implemented

to protect parliamentary business from persistent disruption.

We'll go back to where we were, and I call Douglas Ross.

Thank you, Presiding Officer. And you will have our full support with that, and I'm pleased to say I managed to hold my tongue this time with that introduction.

But as I was saying, less than 40 hours ago, Hamza Yusuf stood in this chamber and promised to be the First Minister for all of Scotland. Yesterday, he had an opportunity to prove that with the new ministerial team he appointed.

But he failed in his first big test.

This is the largest government since devolution, with more ministers than ever before.

But key ministerial posts relating to social security and tourism were abolished.

Yet a new Minister for Independence was created.

Does the First Minister really believe that appointing a taxpayer-funded nationalist campaigner is governing for all of Scotland.

First Minister.

I say, President President, how delighted I am to have appointed the Cabinet that has the most number of women in it in the history of the evolution.

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