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Parliament will be meeting at 12 oclock on Thursday.
The First Minister will face questions from across the parliament in this week’s FMQs.
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Douglas Ross has asked who the Scottish Government has consulted with to the vaccine passport.
FM says she doesn’t have them to hand but will send them over.
She adds that Covid cases would still be rising if they had done what the Scottish Conservatives wanted.
Douglas Ross raises the vaccine passport and criticises the government for the roll out.
He has asked for it to be delayed which the First Minister has refused.
A judge refused the legal challenge against the vaccine passport today.
The FM is now reading the comments from the judge adding “none of us want to be in this position.”
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