Thank you.

That concludes general questions.

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

I call Russell Thinley at question number one.

If a Scottish Government Minister misleads this Parliament and, by extension, misleads the public,

should they correct the record?

The arrangements for so- doing are set out clearly and they will be applied where that is

necessary to do so.

Russell Finley.

That is as clear as mud.

John Swinney often talks about integrity when his party and his government have none.

He denied that his Justice Secretary broke the ministerial code until the Scottish Conservatives

proved that she had done so not once but twice.

John Swinney shows exactly the same disregard for integrity and facts when it comes to taxation.

Here are the facts.

More Scottish workers pay more income tax than those elsewhere in the United Kingdom.

Yet John Swinney falsely accuses me of misleading Parliament when I state this hard fact, and then

he doesn't correct the record.

I know that the SNP's culture of dishonesty will never change.

But does John Swinney at least agree that Scots are paying too much tax.

First Minister.

First thing, the arrangements in relation to the scrutiny of ministerial conduct have

...