First Minister, I shall first acknowledge the unprecedented package of financial assistance you have unveiled for the hospitality industry. However, First Minister, the hospitality trade want to be doing just that—trading. They don't want handouts, however generous, because they don't adequately cover their costs.

First Minister, this latest set of quite farcical lockdown measures is another example of punishing the many for the antics of the few, and it isn't even based on science or what the statistics tell us. If you increase the number of tests you must, ipso facto, increase the number of positive results, and that is throughout the United Kingdom. How deadly is a disease if you have to test to identify if people have it? This is because, of course, the vast majority of the population who contract it will suffer little or no effects from the virus. We need targeted, not universal, interventions.

The hospitality industry has followed all instructions and regulations in an exemplary manner and your own statistics show they are not the source of rising infections. What science lies behind your banning of alcohol in pubs and restaurants? You've given a new meaning to the words of that old song, 'A pub with no beer'. You can't even have a glass of wine with your meal, but you can, of course, buy wine by the caseload from the supermarket and, if you're so minded, have half a dozen people around to drink it with no safety precautions present at all. Of course, the reason you haven't banned supermarkets from selling alcohol is that you know the consequences of that would be civil unrest. First Minister, you are targeting and devastating the hospitality industry yet again, and your own statistics show the real source of infections is schools, care homes and hospitals. Please, First Minister, I beg you, on behalf of the hospitality industry and the economy in general, to end this massively damaging carousel of lockdowns and restrictions.