Mae'r next item of business is topical questions in order to get in as many members as possible. Short and succinct questions and responses would be appreciated. At question number one, I call Clare Baker. To ask the Scottish Government how it is responding to the report, Drug Related Death in Scotland 2021, which was published on 28 July 2022. Minister, Angela Constance. Presiding Officer, every life lost to her drug death is a tragedy. The report, which National Records of Scotland published in July, showed that we lost 1,330 people to drugs in Scotland in 2021. Not statistics, but lives that ended far too soon, and each one underlining that we are still in the midst of a public health emergency. I will give a full statement on this issue on Thursday and will appear before three joint committees next week. However, this Government's response will be to redouble our commitment to the national mission on saving and improving lives. The principles of which will guide us through this emergency are follow the evidence, invest to transform services and trust our lived and living experience. Clare Baker. Thank you. It is three years since the Scottish Government announced a public health emergency, and yet these figures demonstrate little emergency response. I still wonder that the accusation of we keep dying, you keep talking continues. The progress on mat standards in particular is lamentable, and while a year target has been set for one to five targets being introduced, the implementation on that timescale is a year behind what was initially promised. So can I ask what action has taken place over the summer to push for effective delivery on the mat standards? Minister. The scale of the loss of life in Scotland should not be underestimated. Drug deaths are, of course, preventable, unacceptable and tragic, and we all have a responsibility to play our part to turn the tide. In terms of mat standards, Ms Baker will be aware that for the first time in Scotland the Government has issued ministerial direction. All authorities, whether chief executive officers and local authorities, IGBs, health boards have received those letters. There is a clear expectation and demand that improvement plans and implementation plans have to be submitted to the Government by the end of this month. We are in the process of gathering and scrutinising that information, and I will, of course, as per my previous commitments to Ms Baker and chamberby keeping Parliament fully updated on the crucial life-saving mat standards. They are not a tick box and they are most certainly not optional. In terms of activity over the summer, she will have seen that we have published a national mission strategic plan. The vital final recommendations from the Drugs Death Task Force have also been published, too. Clare Baker. Thank you. So we have 250 million has been committed to this over five years and we've had lots of announcements, but the key task here is to stop the deaths. So can I ask what the Scottish Government is doing to monitor the impact of interventions, how it is able to increase investment or expand activity in areas where progress is being made and what additional support it is committing to ensure that we see progress and we start to see these figures come down significantly? Minister. As I have intimated in my initial answer, I will be responding to Parliament with respect to the vital report of the Drugs Deaths Task Force, but in terms of resource, I hope that Ms Baker and others would accept that with the national mission monies we see a 67 per cent real terms increase. I have also endeavoured to ensure continuity of funding both to ADPs and to those vital grassroots organisations. We are pursuing a belt and braces approach in terms of funding front-line services but also directly funding organisations as well. The point that she raises is that investment is not just about quantum, it is also about targeting to ensure that the resource reaches where it must reach. That does fall in monitoring and evaluation. We are publishing more information than ever before to ensure efficacy but also transparency and also how we allocate money is vital to ensuring that we get cross-government but also cross-sector collaboration and that we are both serious about reducing harm but also supporting recovery in this country. Sue Webber. Thank you, Presiding Officer. We all know that residential rehabilitation is absolutely life-saving and that it needs to be front and centre of the SNP Government's efforts to end Scotland's drug-related deaths epidemic. I was shocked to learn yesterday from my constituent James, who is a resident in Calda Gren in South Lanarkshire, that is more than half empty right now. There are 13 empty beds there at present. Minister, you said it's imperative that resources reach where it must reach. Three people are dying every day, Minister, so why are people not able to access these beds? Minister. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer, and I appreciate that question from Miss Webber. I am indeed a powerful advocate for residential rehabilitation as part of that recovery-orientated whole system of care. Miss Webber will be aware that this Government has committed 100 million pounds. Thus far, we have made commitments around 23 million pounds, which is both about utilising the unused capacity within the sector but also increasing capacity in the sector over and above that. For the first time ever, we have in effect ring-fence money for residential rehab to alcohol and drug partnerships. Also, for the first time ever, we are monitoring the number of residential rehabilitation places that each ADP is funding. I know that over the course of 2021-22, more than 500 placements were indeed funded. However, if there are particular issues about the care pathway for her constituent, I would be more than happy and, indeed, it's my duty to hear about it, so I should be very welcome to contact me separately on that matter. Question 2, Edward Mountain. Thank you, Presiding Officer. To ask the Scottish Government whether it can confirm if Hull 801 will be delivered by May 2023 and Hull 802 by December 2023 and within the latest cost to complete budget of £123 million. Minister Iver Mickey. The target date for the completion of Hull 801 Glen Sannocks remains by the end of May 2023 and Hull 802 by the end of December 2023. The current budget to complete both vessels remains £123 million that is set by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy update to Parliament on 23 March 2022. The Deputy First Minister and Minister for Transport were able to see firsthand the progress made on both vessels during their visit to the shipyard on 2 August this year. We continue to press the shipyard on the vessels in this agreed time frame and within budget. Edward Mountain. Thank you, Presiding Officer. The answer is they'll be delivered on the latest timescale and on the latest budget. We know there's only £30 million left in the budget plot and at least another 15 months of build time so frankly an overspend is probably inevitable. Given the latest disastrous information on harbour upgrades in what year will both ferries be operational on their planned routes? As I've already indicated the completion dates for those ferries are at the end of May 2023 and the end of December 2023 and both ferries will begin to operation obviously after those dates and the work is continuing to make sure that the turnaround in the yard is delivering to those results and also the yard is increasingly becoming more competitive so please tell out to bid for other business going forward. Edward Mountain. So there we have it sorry Minister what we've got is a Scottish Government that doesn't even know when the infrastructure will be in place to allow the ferries to operate on the route. We've had a Scottish Government that's mucked up on the contract the nationalisation in the yard and will overspend their budget and will delay to build the harbour infrastructure that they need. What more could possibly have gone wrong? Minister. I think that the member is incorrect the harbour infrastructure has been put in place to ensure that the ferries can operate and as I've said already the completion dates for those ferries are as I've already indicated and the work continues to make the yard more competitive so that it can bid for and when more work on the open market saving the jobs, saving the ship making sure that commercial ship building on the Clyde has a future and if we'd listened to others we would not be in this position today and we wouldn't have saved those more than 300 jobs over that period of time that's what's important that's what this Government cares about the industrial future of that sector on the Clyde. Stuart McMillan. The Scottish Government has demonstrated its crystal clear commitment to the communities which are served by the ferries services the strong commitment to ensuring that the proud traditional ship building continues in Port Glasgow on the Clyde and that jobs are protected from those who would have actually closed the yard. What can the Government and indeed Ferguson million do to give the yard a secure future and guarantee the jobs and skills for generations to come? Minister. Stuart McMillan is of course right to highlight the need for us all to work to give the yard and future generations of employees a secure future there will be potential work from this Government we have previously said that we will have a small vessels programme and there will be longer term proposals to invest in new ferry vessels we would want Ferguson Marine to be in a position to secure some of that work but whether it's from this Government other public sources or the private sector the yard needs to be competitive we had made clear our expectation in this regard we continue to monitor progress closely there are a lot of changes being put in place since the new chief executive was appointed earlier this year so that significant progress has been made the yard is back to me and a serious contender for future vessel contracts and I would hope that that is something that everyone in this chamber could welcome and get behind. Katie Clark. The substitute vessel being used on the adroson to Arran route is now 38 years old Seamall say that they have looked to over 600 vessels in recent years but only managed to procure one. Could the minister confirm when project Netschyn will be published but also will the Scottish Government commit to bringing forward a more sustainable plan to build capacity and construct vessels here in Scotland? Minister. I can make the member aware that my colleague the minister for transport will be in the chamber on Thursday to give an update on those very issues and talk to hearing from her the progress that has been made and the plans that are in place to address the issues that the member raised. Graham Simpson. The minister has already been asked about harbour upgrades but didn't seem to give a very clear answer. The Adroson harbour task force was formed over six years ago we still have no agreement on who is going to pay for what and when the work will be done so can the minister say today when Adroson harbour will be ready to take the Glen Sannocks? Minister. The member will be aware that of course Peele Ports are the owner of that facility but the Government is committed to making sure that this issue is resolved my colleague the minister for transport is working on this and has already said that we are working to ensure that that is in place for when the ferries will be operational. That concludes topical questions. The next item of business is consideration of business motion 5882 in the name of George Adam on behalf of the parliamentary bureau on changes to this week's business. Any member who wishes to speak against the motion should press their request to speak button now and I call on George Adam to move the motion. Thank you, Presiding Officer and moved. Thank you minister. No member has asked to speak against the motion therefore the question is that the motion 5882 be agreed are we all agreed? The motion is therefore agreed.


Hello and welcome to a video showing you a step by step breakdown of how to write an amazing level nine model answer to the English language paper one question five creative writing exercise. My name is Barbara and in this video I'll go over with you how to write a model response for creative writing question for the English language paper one exam. Don't forget we've got an amazing GCSE AQA English course covering everything you need to know about this portion of the exams. This is language paper one as well as English language paper two and the literature portion of the exams including paper one, paper two, as well as all the texts included in this course. Therefore, if you want to know how to secure top level nine marks in your English GCSEs do make sure you sign up for it using our link below. So let's have a look at a creative writing past paper question and how to write a strong model response. Now let's look at a past paper question so always remember that the creative writing question is always question five and it's worth 40 marks therefore you should spend 45 minutes out of the one hour 45 minutes that you're allocated for the English language paper one exam. Now the question is usually structured something along these lines you have section B which is a writing and you're told to spend 45 minutes on this section and you must write in four sentences and it's always essential to plan your answer. Now this question in particular states you're going to enter creative writing competition your entry will be charged by a panel of people your own age so other secondary school students write a story suggested by this picture. Now what I would suggest is you should always spend five to seven minutes planning this story this time is sacred you need to have a clear idea of how to plan your story. In terms of the structure to use for a plan I would suggest having let's say four or five paragraphs each of which can go into a beginning so you have your opening this is where you set the scenes of course with this image the scene has been set it seems to be in a park setting you have different people who appear to be part of the same family perhaps or the same extended family there's a young girl in the middle who it seems to be her birthday and then so in the beginning you basically set this scene then in the build-up you create some action some kind of interesting adventure something that is happening which you're going to go over then you can have a problem always remember a story should have a twist this is what makes it interesting for your reader then you've got a climax this is the scariest part of the story this is most interesting part of the story whereby we're not sure what's going to happen and then the resolution resolution can also include a cliff hanger as I've mentioned when you're planning it would be good to use this type of structure one paragraph for beginning one paragraph for buildup one paragraph for problem one paragraph for climax and one for resolution of course do bear in mind you can have beginning and build up as one paragraph then one for problem climax and resolution but try not to have fewer than four paragraphs okay now with this kind of question if I were to look at it I would obviously as I've mentioned set the setting in a really beautiful park during the daytime the atmosphere is probably quite happy quite jovial quite playful and it's her birthday and what I will do is I will write it from this lady's perspective so she is the grandmother she's looking at perhaps one of her grandchildren and it's one of perhaps her elder grandchildren's birthday so let's say it's her 18th birthday now the buildup perhaps is maybe there's some kind of change so for instance if we look at this other character she's looking at something in the distance as is he okay so now the buildup is there something happening in the distance maybe there's a change of weather that's causing them to not focus on the festivities as everybody else then the problem is maybe this issue is a tornado and now the setting starts changing everything becomes dark now the climax is perhaps a start running for the cars and now this main lady so this is the grandmother is trying to get all her children to safety and then perhaps she loses her nephew or rather her great grandson and the resolution could be either a cliffhanger something happens maybe the granddad so let's say him he has to go in search of him but maybe we're not sure what's going to happen okay so now let's look at my model response to this question swarms of children running and screaming around the park as bubbles floated in the air and the fluorescent balloons drifted around aimlessly on the floor and in between branches of trees there were multiple birthday banners draped across the mahogany stalks and branches I gazed at my granddaughter and classed my hands with pride she had just turned 18 my tremulous hands classed together and I turned to my left and looked at my youngest granddaughter as everyone gathered around her to sing happy birthday and watch the cake cutting I could not help but notice something my youngest granddaughter was fixated on the sumptuous chocolate cake the pearly white cream was dotted with petals and slices of perfectly cut fruits we began loudly singing happy birthday as my granddaughter took out a knife to slice the cake I turned to my husband who wore a blue checkered shirt and I irritably nudged him to fix on his granddaughter yet his focus never once waned as he held on to his wine glass and he stared intently ahead my brows knitted together as I noticed that someone else was distracted staring in the same direction my brunette head granddaughter who donned a white and black top was also staring straight ahead what were they looking at I waved my head around as I felt strong gusts of wind suddenly rustled the trees around me my eyes widened as my jaws dropped when I noticed millions of emerald scarlet and ruby red leaves swirling around furiously in the distance I tried getting the attention of the birthday girl whose head was bent down focusing on cutting the birthday cake the wind whistled and wished as everyone's focus left the cake and looked in the same direction the turquoise sky was brightly turning ash and gray as a furious tornado formed in the horizon the monstrous apparition danced and swayed as it drew closer to us the cheers and laughter transformed into cries and screams as I shouted at my grandchildren to run my oldest granddaughter flung her cake to one side as we backed away from the oak table and ran towards our cars my heart raced as we sprinted to our cars to save our lives we arrived and I counted everyone the tornado was closing in we do not have much time suddenly I noticed my only grandson was missing I looked around through the fog and the gray ghosty clouds he had vanished as tears rolled up in my eyes I noticed my husband run back directly into the eye of the storm his blue checkered shirt disappeared into gray watery tornado now here as I wrote this I decided that he would be the grandfather okay so perhaps also this is another granddad maybe from the mom's or dad's side so this is her husband okay now bear in mind with this creative writing answer I'm using metaphors I'm using very vivid language such as swarms of children I'm also using lots of adjectives fluorescent balloons because what you want to do is give your reader really really vivid descriptions of course as you can see here this is the beginning of the story okay going back to this plan I've written the beginning as one paragraph and I've made it really really positive the atmosphere is really really amazing okay then I've started adding more detail I've also added lots of adjectives and adverbs as well as verbs loudly singing adverb and then also I'm mentioning really obviously certain characters so that they are really related and clearly indicated in the image so the blue checkered shirt here I've also mentioned for instance I'm clasping my hands to really make it clear that I'm mentioning this particular individual in the image okay make sure you are answering the question the story suggested by the picture okay then as you can see here I've now had my build up then I'm now adding my problem there's a certain change okay and my problem then goes into what I've combined as my climax and resolution and I've ended with a cliffhanger and an ellipsis okay so do bear in mind that you need to have very colorful language with your creative writing you need to have a good set structure and the most important thing that's really sacred is do make sure you plan your story so that's all if you found this video helpful make sure you give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing to our 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