While bedbug bites can be itchy they do not constitute a public health hazard. Local authority environmental health departments are responsible for their own pest control and advice services. General prevention advice for anyone who suspects an infestation can be found by contacting the relevant local authority.

The NHS UK website contains useful information on bed bugs, including self-care advice, and can be found at Bedbugs - NHS (www.nhs.uk) .

We are working closely our partners in the Enterprise Agencies and the Scottish National Investment Bank to develop an approach that will allow us to respond at pace to market needs. We will provide more detail to the market in due course.

It is important that we take the time to work closely with industry, with investors and with our partners across the public and private sectors to ensure that we get our approach to this right. This process is already well-underway and will update the market once it has been completed.

Delivery of the £500 million Just Transition Fund remains ongoing with £75 million allocated to date, supporting projects and communities across the North East and Moray to create jobs, support innovation, and secure the highly skilled workforce of the future.

We are already working closely with private and public sector partners, including developers and investors, through a variety of fora to ensure that together, we maximise the economic benefits that the offshore renewables sector can deliver for Scotland.

This strategic investment to help create thousands of green jobs and deliver the full economic potential of offshore renewables projects will be delivered over the next five years.

There will be an extensive programme of consultation as the Green Industrial Strategy is developed in line with our commitments within the New Deal for Business. We have already engaged with a number of organisations including Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC), Confederation of British Industry (CBI Scotland), Scottish Council for Development & Industry (SCDI), Federation of Small Business (FSB), Institute of Directors (IoD) and Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE). We will continue to engage with stakeholders through our New Deal for Business Group and other mechanisms in order to shape the strategy.

Yes. We will update Parliament, when appropriate, in relation to the Green Industrial Strategy.

The pandemic and the subsequent pressures on the court system and justice partners arising from the backlog of cases it created, has impacted on the implementation timetable for the Vulnerable Witnesses (Criminal Evidence) (Scotland) Act 2019. We are working with partners and stakeholders through a cross sector implementation group to update the implementation plan and have committed to publish by the end of March 2024.

Information on the tonnage of waste Scotland has the capacity to recycle is not held centrally.

Information on the tonnage of waste that has been recycled in Scotland in the last five years is available from SEPA (Scottish Environment Protection Agency) via its household waste data reporting: www.sepa.org.uk/environment/waste/waste-data/waste-data-reporting/waste-data-for-scotland/

The following table shows tonnage of waste recycled in Scotland from 2015. Data for 2022 is still being processed and will be published in 2024. Due to the cyber attack experienced by SEPA in 2020, data for 2019 and 2020 is unavailable:

An automatic presumption in favour of pre-recording the evidence of complainers is a key feature of the Sexual Offences Court that the Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill seeks to establish, which is subject to scrutiny and agreement by Parliament.

In the meantime, existing courts already have the power to direct that the evidence of vulnerable witnesses be pre-recorded, and evidence by commissioner hearings are regularly used to pre-record evidence of complainers in serious sexual offences.