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Official Report: search what was said in Parliament

The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 6 April 2025
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Meeting of the Parliament

Topical Question Time

Meeting date: 23 May 2023

Mark Ruskell

Will the minister say how she has sought to correct Mr Jack’s misrepresentations and misunderstandings of the way that devolution works across these islands?

Meeting of the Parliament

Topical Question Time

Meeting date: 23 May 2023

Mark Ruskell

The Secretary of State for Scotland is actively seeking to sabotage not only the DRS, with all its benefits for litter reduction, recycling and climate emissions, but the whole basis of devolution, including the right of this Parliament, and of the Welsh Senedd, to deliver DRS schemes across the UK that include glass—[Interruption.]

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Culture in Communities

Meeting date: 18 May 2023

Mark Ruskell

Is how we define culture and the creative sector an issue? Creative Stirling is a very creative organisation that works in the cultural space and the regeneration space, but its physical space is an abandoned high street department store. It does not occupy a traditional cultural venue and it works in a very unsiloed way to meet its various objectives, although it would probably go to Creative Scotland for funding. Is there a fuzziness in how the creative sector operates, how it accesses opportunities and spaces and, therefore, how it is planned?

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Culture in Communities

Meeting date: 18 May 2023

Mark Ruskell

Do you mean that that whole area—civic space, green space and interconnected spaces between communities—is about creative design?

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Culture in Communities

Meeting date: 18 May 2023

Mark Ruskell

The question that comes out of that is what culture can do for planning and place making. The final question that I have been pondering concerns the local place plan process. From the way that you describe it, it seems that, at its heart, it is quite co-creative. In so, where are creative and cultural organisations in that? We look to planners and planning departments—which are underfunded, perhaps—to deliver the process, but is there a role for creative organisations in supporting planning charrettes and accessing and enabling the voices of young people and other disadvantaged groups in the process? Are there examples of a creative sector or creative groups in communities working with planners to assist in the local place plan process and help to create the vision? That feels like quite an exciting opportunity.

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Culture in Communities

Meeting date: 18 May 2023

Mark Ruskell

I am interested to hear how you think the dial has shifted since Covid and what some of the challenges and opportunities are. Looking around some of the communities that are close to me, I notice that high streets look very different now and shop spaces are opening up. During Covid, there was more discussion about the value of green space and we started to think about how streets could look different and how civic spaces could be opened up. I guess that there were some opportunities there, but cultural organisations are also facing into some headwinds. It would be interesting to get your views on how the post-Covid world looks a little bit different and the implications of that.

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee

Culture in Communities

Meeting date: 18 May 2023

Mark Ruskell

You are referring to pop-up shops, pop-up facilities and creative opportunities.

Meeting of the Parliament

First Minister’s Question Time

Meeting date: 18 May 2023

Mark Ruskell

In the middle of the cost of living crisis, the University of St Andrews is increasing rents in its student halls by 8 per cent. Students are at risk of being plunged into poverty as the university lines its pockets. Does the First Minister agree that a rent increase of that scale is completely unacceptable? Will he join me in calling on the university to reverse that decision?

Meeting of the Parliament

Bus Services

Meeting date: 17 May 2023

Mark Ruskell

Will Alex Rowley give way?

Meeting of the Parliament

Bus Services

Meeting date: 17 May 2023

Mark Ruskell

Will the member give way?