A clearly distraught SNP MSP Kenneth Gibson also begins by paying tribute to Christina McKelvie.

“She was truly a force of nature,” he says.

He moves on to ask for John Swinney’s reaction to the Spring Statement.

The FM says his government is concerned by a number of details within the statement and he highlights the assessment from the DWP that the measures in the statement are likely to drive 250,000 more people into relative poverty, including 50,000 children.

Swinney adds that the Fraser of Allander Institute has estimated the measures will see a block grant adjustment to Scotland’s budget that removes £455m by 29/30.

Gibson accuses Labour of a “shameful litany of broken manifesto promises”.

The FM replies that Scotland has implemented a social security system that is “based on dignity and respect” and he says those values will always be at the heart of the decisions of the Scottish government.

“We are once again…swimming against a tide of rising poverty levels as a consequence of UK government decision making,” he adds.