I thank the cabinet secretary for his statement and Lord Brodie for the interim report.

However, the cabinet secretary will recognise that this is just one half of the story. In the case of the Edinburgh sick kids hospital, unfortunate though the delay and the uncertainty were for families, thankfully no child lost their life. I believe that Jeane Freeman was right to put patient safety first.

In contrast, the Queen Elizabeth university hospital—Nicola Sturgeon’s flagship hospital—was rushed through when it clearly was not safe, and children died as a consequence.

We await the findings of Lord Brodie’s final report, but what lessons have been learned to avoid taking such a reckless approach again, as appears to have happened with the Queen Elizabeth university hospital?