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Will the minister take an intervention? He has to let me speak—I have been mentioned.

One of the best ways to improve safety would be to dual the A96, as promised by the Scottish National Party in 2011.

To ask the Scottish Government how much it spent in 2023-24 on safety improvements to trunk roads in the North East Scotland region.

Last week, there was a tragic accident at Balmedie, when one-year-old Ivy Mae Ross sadly lost her life.

The extremist Greens have been ditched from the Government, so can the First Minister tell me whether the damaging policy of the presumption

Will the member give way?

New figures show that just £67,000 has been spent on improvements to the A90 north of Ellon at the Toll of Birness since 2017.

Does the point about extreme weather not make the case for more undergrounding of cables? Or do you believe—

—like Mark Ruskell that it is a fait accompli—that these pylons will go up regardless of the result of any consultation and that communities

I start by congratulating my colleague Tess White on securing this vitally important debate.