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RSHP education is designed to help children and young people build positive relationships as they grow older and should present facts in an objective, balanced and sensitive manner within the framework of curricular values and an awareness of the law. The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring all children and young people receive high quality RSHP education, which is an integral part of the health and wellbeing area of the curriculum. Revised statutory RSHP teaching guidance was published in February 2026 which reinforces age and stage appropriate content and learning.

Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) is the national approach to learning and teaching for young people aged 3 to 18 and is underpinned by the values of wisdom, justice, compassion and integrity. CfE provides learners with a range of personalised learning experiences based on internationally agreed standards and research evidence on age appropriate education which children and young people need as they grow and develop into adolescence and young adulthood. Education Scotland has been leading on development and delivery of the new Curriculum Improvement Cycle, a planned and systemic approach to strengthening the curriculum to ensure it remains forward looking and supports more consistent teaching and learning experiences and improved attainment and achievement of our children and young people.

This universal design principle directly applies to RSHP lessons where teachers must ensure learning is accessible for all while accommodating diverse communication styles, processing speeds, and sensory profiles. Education Scotland’s neurodiversity resources published on their website provide teachers with help to support neurodivergent learners.

Under the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 local authorities are responsible for the delivery of education in their area, and to ensure that school environments are safe for pupils. In that context, decisions about introducing one-to-one digital device programmes sit with local authorities as part of their wider responsibilities for the planning and delivery of education.

The Scottish Government published updated statutory RSHP teaching guidance in February 2026. The revised teaching guidance reflects the issues currently facing children and young people, especially around inclusivity, consent and healthy relationships as well as online influences.

Regarding content of the Scottish curriculum, I refer the member to the answer to questions S6W-30034 on 3 October 2024, and S6W-32189 on 23 December 2024. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers.

Screen Scotland’s Broadcast Content Fund has awarded the following sums to production companies based in the Highlands and Islands region, in each year since 2021:

2021-22 - £170,000

2022-23 - £12,376

2023-24 - £165,000

2024-25 - £435,000

2025-26 – data not yet available

The following tables provide the number of injury road collisions on the A77 with the requested breakdowns.

Please note that figures for 2025 and 2026 are provisional, as they are based on monthly returns received thus far from Police Scotland, with the most recent returns being received on 11 March 2026. This may be an incomplete picture of casualties due to a slight lag between collisions occurring and the data being processed and shared by Police Scotland. These figures are also subject to change due to subsequent corrections and late records.

Personal Injury collisions on the A77

I have consistently said that this Government was prepared to give every consideration to an Inquiry in Scotland if we felt it necessary. We now feel it is and this conclusion was reached after careful consideration.

I have had significant engagement over the past few months with MSPs, Police Scotland, Alexis Jay, and survivors on this important issue.

A statutory inquiry will offer further independent scrutiny that is both substantive and visibly distinct. I believe that this visibility is now critical to maintaining public confidence and encouraging openness and participation from victims and survivors.

In addition, engaging survivors in the development of child sexual abuse and exploitation policy and practice is a key priority. We have already announced work to be taken forward with survivors, and the creation of a Truth Project will build on that through a meaningful process.

The Scottish Government takes matters of food security and resilience very seriously. Work is underway on the inaugural food security statement which will have regard to the recently published Rural Support Plan. That statement will build on the package of measures we are already taking to support food production including maintaining direct support for farmers and crofters in stark contrast to policies in other parts of the UK.

The Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act 2024 (the 2024 Act) requires Scottish Ministers to make a statement on food security at least every three years, from the Act’s entry into force on 16 June 2025.

The Scottish Government has not allocated seed funding for the Scottish Marine Recovery Fund (MRF) within the 2026–27 Scottish Budget as development of a comprehensive suite of compensatory measures to be used by the MRF has to be completed first. This work is progressing at pace and includes the advancement of wider and more strategic measures enabled by the Conservation of Habitats and Species (Offshore Wind) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2026, which will come into force on 25 May 2026.

The policy and legislative developments enabled by these regulations will directly inform future decision-making on budgetary provision to seed fund measures, operate the Scottish MRF, and set the charging structure developers will use to apply to the fund.

The Supporting Transgender Pupils in Schools Guidance provides a range of non-statutory guidance in relation to policy, practice and legal requirements which education authorities and schools may wish to consider, in fulfilling their responsibilities to support Transgender pupils, as part of their duties to provide education and support pupils within their school communities. The policy position on support for pupils, including Transgender pupils, is already clearly set out within the guidance document. The guidance was reviewed between April and September 2025 with revised guidance being published in September 2025. There are no plans to review the guidance at this time.

I refer the member to the answers to questions S6W-44340 on 19 March 2026, S6W-44341on 24 March 2026 and S6W-44342 on 19 March 2026. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers