If you're just joining us, here are the key lines that emerged from the opposition party leaders' FMQs:

• The chamber was united in wishing the Scotland football team and the Tartan Army "the best of luck" as the World Cup kicks off later.
• The disorder following a brutal attack in Belfast was also raised, with all party leaders condemning violence.
• Swinney insisted Scotland was a peaceful and welcoming country.
• Anas Sarwar called for an inquiry after Peter Murrell's conviction for embezzlement, saying Labour will work with any review into party finances instigated by the Electoral Commission.
• Reform leader Malcolm Offord asked Swinney to restore powers for local authorities to prioritise social housing for Scots on waiting lists over new arrival refugees.
• Swinney said he warned about Reform in the election campaign and was glad he made it clear in the election campaign that he would not co-operate with Reform.
• Scottish Greens co-leader Gillian Mackay accused Reform of actively welcoming racist and anti-Semitic members.
• Swinney described Elon Musk's sharing of content circulated by Tommy Robinson as "absolutely abhorrent".
• Russell Findlay, leader of the Scottish Conservatives, brought attention to a woman who donated to the SNP for decades and left £20,000 in her will, and said she would have backed an inquiry into SNP finances.
• Alex Cole-Hamilton, for the Lib Dems, raised the shortage of specialist teachers in schools, saying teachers could not find jobs but subjects were being cut due to lack of teachers, which "does not make sense".

That's all from the live page team today. Catherine Lyst was the editor and the writers were Rachel Grant and Craig Hutchison. Thanks for joining us.

FMQs comes to a close and immediately Reform UK's Helen McDade attempts to raise a point of order asking what the FM thinks the word racist aimed at her does to her risk.

She calls on Swinney to say to her face he thinks she's a racist.

Presiding Officer Kenneth Gibson says that is not a point of order, rather a point of argument.

The first minister accepts there are "acute challenges" in relation to specialist teacher numbers particularly in rural areas.

Swinney points to the active workforce planning in place to address these challenges.

Cole-Hamilton replies that he is not sure the FM understands how depressing the situation is for graduating teachers.

The Scottish Lib Dem leader points out that teachers can't find jobs but subjects are being cut due to lack of teachers, which he says "does not make sense".

He asks the FM to sit down with his party and deliver sensible solutions such as making it easier for primary school teachers to requalify and work in secondary schools.

Swinney says work on this is already under way with the General Teaching Council.

Lucy Adams
Education correspondent

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Secondary schools are reducing timetables and cutting whole subjects from the curriculum due to a lack of specialist teachers, education leaders have told BBC Scotland News.

The Association of Directors of Education in Scotland says a national action plan is needed urgently to increase recruitment and address the "crisis".

It says there are particular shortages in maths, science, design technology and computing, and that pupils are not accessing the full range of subjects in every year.

The Scottish government says Scotland has the lowest pupil/teacher ratio and some of the smallest class sizes of any country in the UK.

Read more here.

Back to First Minister's Questions where Alex Cole-Hamilton says the "heat and the hate stoked by bad actors online and amplified by voices in this chamber do not reflect the welcoming and internationalist country that I recognise".

The Scottish Lib Dem leader adds: "If they seek to gain advantage by trying to divide the people of Scotland then they underestimate the people of Scotland and they will fail."

He turns to education and the shortage of specialist teachers in schools, pointing to his party's research showing that more than 500 teacher jobs had to be readvertised due to shortages.

Cole-Hamilton asks why subjects such as science and computing are being taught by history teachers or being dropped entirely.

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The chamber now moves to the ministerial statement on improving maternity services across Scotland.

Last November it was announced that a national investigation into maternity services in Scotland was to be carried out.

The review was formed by an expert health group.

It came after a BBC Disclosure investigation heard calls from families, NHS staff and experts for urgent action to improve maternity safety across the country.

Parents featured in the documentary who lost their babies in Scottish hospitals had demanded an inquiry into maternity services.

Last week it emerged that staff at Scotland's biggest hospital described conditions in the maternity unit as "unsafe" and "dangerous" during an inspection by the NHS watchdog.

You can watch the entire statement here with us, just hit the Watch Live icon at the top of the page.

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Angus Cochrane
BBC Scotland senior political reporter

It’s been a session full of tricky segways as party leaders try a scatter-gun approach to FMQs.

Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay began by wishing the Scotland team well at the World Cup, and condemning “ugly scenes” in Greenock.

He went on to accuse senior SNP figures of a “desperate” cover-up of Peter Murrell’s crimes.

But with an eye on next week’s Aberdeen South by-election, he also found time to have a dig over alleged SNP “duplicity” on oil and gas.

As the countdown to Scotland’s World Cup opener starts, Findlay will hope his varied approach scored some political points.

Findlay moves on to the the Aberdeen South by election, where he says residents he has spoken to are "dismayed by the SNP's desperate Peter Murrell and Nicola Sturgeon cover-up".

But he says they are angry at the thousands of jobs being lost because of opposition to new oil and gas drilling.

He asks Swinney to stop sitting on the fence and back his candidate Douglas Lumsden's call to "get Britain drilling again".

Swinney says Lumsden is a "useless candidate" who submitted thousands of AI freedom of information requests.

Russell Findlay, leader of the Scottish Conservatives, says Swinney has blocked an investigation into the SNP's finances after Peter Murrell admitted embezzlement.

He refers to a woman who joined the party in the 1950s, donated money for years and left the SNP £20,000 when she died, aged 84.

Murrell told her solicitor to deal only with him, not the party treasurer, Findlay says.

The executor of the will "told me she would have backed the inquiry in parliament", he adds, asking "why John Swinney is so afraid of doing the right thing"?

Swinney says the embezzlement affected "my party and my party alone".

He adds that they are working to recover the £400,000 listed in the court case.

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Andrew Kerr
BBC Scotland political correspondent

It's been the central issue of the week - the brutal knife attack in Belfast which led to a night of violence and scenes of disruption in Scotland too.

The Glasgow Green MSP Iris Duane told the BBC that she'd been the "first black member of the Scottish Parliament" and she shouldn't be afraid to "walk around the city that I love just because of the colour of my skin".

The Greens co-leader Gillian Mackay wanted to highlight this and to "condemn racists and fascists".

She hit out at Reform, claiming they actively welcomed "racist and anti-semitic members".

Reform don't get a say at this point - see the comments from Macolm Offord earlier - but the first minister claimed Reform were "stirring up division".

She went on to call for tighter social media regulation and class the platforms as "publishers".

However, John Swinney pointed out that most of this was reserved to the UK government but he was happy to work on this further.

Mackay says Elon Musk shared abhorrent content online which is a direct threat to our communities.

The Scottish Greens co-leader calls on the FM to treat social media companies like publishers, when the content shown is a result of algorithims not personal choices, and to tackle online hate and misleading content.

Swinney says he is happy to work with the Greens and other parties on this issue.

He says Elon Musk promoting messages circulated by Tommy Robinson encouraging people to take part in demonstrations is "absolutely abhorrent".

The first minister says he is horrified by the comments to which Gillian Mackay refers.

"I deplore the way in which Reform is sitrring up this division in our society," Swinney adds.

He says Reform should establish the strongest distance from that rhetoric and the behaviour of these indivuals.

"This is a time when our parliament must stand together to condemn racists and fascists who seek to divide our communities," says Mackay.

The Scottish Greens co-leader points to The National which she says has revealed an active member of Reform UK not only took part in the racist scenes on Buchanan Street but boasted he would do so again.

She reads quotes she says are from the man and says his words make her feel sick.

Mackay asks what the FM has to say to those on the Reform benches who have "fanned the flames of hate".

She accuses the party of actively welcoming racist and anti-Semitic members.

The first minister replies that the fundamental duty of ministers is to ensure people are safe in their own country.

Swinney points to the We Are Scotland campaign that highlights the advantages of a multicultural society and says it will be revisited.

He says Police Scotland are responding to the concerns of individual communities such as the Jewish and Muslim communities.

The FM adds that the force has the capacity to keep people safe and the resources must be in place to ensure community safety.

It is now the turn of Gillian Mackay to pose her questions to the first minister.

The Scottish Greens co-leader begins by adding her voice to the support of Scotland in the World Cup.

She turns to the racist violence seen on the streets of Belfast as well as in Glasgow and elsewhere in Scotland have been "utterly shameful".

Mackay points out mobs shouted "send them home" at children because they weren't white.

"Nobody should be made to feel unsafe on our streets and it's horrific that so many people have been," she says.

She asks what the first minister will do to provide reassurance to those concerned about their safety and the safety of their loved ones.

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Andrew Kerr
BBC Scotland political correspondent

Reform UK's leader Malcolm Offord was stopped by the presiding officer at first as he tried to ask about immigration - as it's a reserved matter.

But he said he had a Scottish specific point - that thousands of immigrants granted leave to remain and present as homeless get a higher place on the waiting list in Scottish local authorities.

He said local Scots should get priority.

The first minister said local connection rules for refugee households weren't changed - and said he was "fundamentally wrong".

In the wake of the violence and disorder, the pair also clashed over an interview Reform MSP Thomas Kerr gave - where he condemned violence, disorder and racism and also said people should go out to protest peacefully to make their voice heard about illegal migration.

Offord said he condemned violence but said peaceful protest is a valid mechanism to make one's views heard.

Offord repeats that Reform unequivocally condemns violence.

He quotes a recent news report that Glasgow has become home to 20 refugees a week in the past year, with the vast majority "fighting age men with undisclosed nationality".

He asks the first minster again to alleviate pressure on social housing for local people and reinstate "priority need".

Swinney says this is exactly what he warned about in the election.

"The language that has been used about strangers, about creating division between people who walk the same streets of our country," he says.

Offord says Swinney has not answered his question, but adds that he will address the recent attack in Belfast.

He condemns the attack and says violent protest is not the answer.

"But that is not to ignore the problem," he adds.

He says there is a problem with immigration, created by the Tories and exacerbated by Labour, creating unrest in society.

He asks Swinney to restore the priority need to local Scots ahead of strangers.

Swinney reminds Offord he was a member of that Conservative government that allegedly created the problem.

He criticised Reform MSP Thomas Kerr for encouraging people to protest on Wednesday.

Phil Sim
Scotland political correspondent, Aimee Stanton and Andrew Picken

Immigration is not directly an issue for the Scottish Parliament, but it became one of the most contentious elements of the Holyrood election campaign.

The Scottish parliament does not have a say over immigration policy, which is decided at Westminster, but it has its own housing policies which affect refugees.

All "unintentionally homeless" people are entitled to permanent housing, unlike in England where support is restricted to those with priority needs.

Last year, Glasgow's council leader Susan Aitken called on the Home Office to help when the city had 44% of all people presenting as homeless to Glasgow City Council coming from refugee households, many of whom had been granted leave to remain while in other parts of the UK.

Every party has a view on it and a poll for the BBC placed it as one of the most important issues in the minds of voters ahead of the election.

BBC Verify examined claims made by political leaders about the impact of asylum and migration on housing.

Read the analysis from our team here.

Malcolm Offord, Reform's leader in Scotland, says he wants to raise a specific issue relating to immigration, which is in the main reserved to Westminster.

He says councils have had to change how they allocate accommodation because of the number of people given leave to remain in other parts of the UK travelling to Scotland and presenting as homeless.

"Councils are being forced to indefinitely pause the allocation of permanent accommodation to local Scots who have been on waiting lists, in some cases for years, in order to provide temporary accommodation to the new arrivals instead," he says.

Offord asks the first minister if he will restore powers for local authorities to put local Scots first.

Swinney says local connection rules have been misunderstood and accuses Offord's party of being associated with the stirring up of racial hatred. He adds that he is glad he made it clear in the election campaign that he would not co-operate with Reform.