FMQs has drawn to a close. Here are the key lines that emerged this week:

• As expected the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry dominates proceedings with Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay calling for those who were in charge of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital complex when it opened and in the years thereafter to be sacked
• The first minister denies there was any political pressure from Nicola Sturgeon or the SNP government to open the hospital on time
• Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar also urges Swinney to name who had applied the pressure to open the complex on time, which he adds had "devastating consequences"
• Swinney agrees the experience of patients, families and whistleblowers was "completely unacceptable" and adds the inquiry will provide answers to the family of Milly Main and others
• Scottish Greens co-leader Gillian Mackay calls for a £25 cap on football away tickets
• A number of MSPs put pressure on John Swinney to release all files to do with an inquiry into whether Nicola Sturgeon broke the ministerial code in her handling of complaints against Alex Salmond.

That's all from the live page team today, thank you for joining us. The editor was Mary McCool. The writers were Rachel Grant and Craig Hutchison.

Fergus Ewing, the former SNP MSP who now sits as an independent, says James Hamilton expressed his "severe reservations" with the redactions he had to make.

He also points out that orders for more information were made by David Hamilton, the freedom of information commissioner.

As "individuals of the highest repute and integrity", they would not ask Swinney to do anything illegal, he says, and asks if the first minister is making excuses to avoid embarrassing current and past members of the Scottish government.

Swinney appears annoyed at the request to be "cavalier" with court orders.

But when the Conservatives' Murdo Fraser pushes the point that David Hamilton would not request unlawful disclosure, Swinney says the Scottish government believes the information commissioner has "erred in law".

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Labour MSP Katy Clark raises a question to do with James Hamilton's investigation into whether the former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon broke the ministerial code, following the botched investigation into her late predecessor Alex Salmond.

Clark asks whether the Scottish government will comply with the Scottish Information Commissioner's ruling, that files relating to the inquiry must be published by 22 January 2026.

The Scottish government has been threatened with legal action after it missed a deadline to release files from the inquiry.

Swinney replies: "The Scottish government will comply with the commissioner's decision and will do so as soon as practicably possible."

Swinney explains the identities of those who complained in relation to allegations of sexual assault must have their identities protected and insists he will not jeopardise this.

Clark argues the Scottish government has wasted millions of pounds fighting court cases with two further appeals relating to the Salmond files before the Court of Session later this month.

She calls for the release of all the Salmond files and asks if Swinney will look at her bill which would abolish his veto.

Swinney says his government is responding to 96% of information requests on time.

Labour's Paul O'Kane continues the criticism over teaching jobs, saying Swinney will "spectacularly fail" on the pledge he made after the pandemic to provide 3,500 more permanent teachers during this parliament.

He says the education secretary appears to blame teachers themselves by saying they will not travel for jobs and are "much more expensive", but the government has failed to put together a workforce plan.

Swinney says there are "record levels of literacy" in Scotland and there is "tremendous strength in Scottish education".

Willie Rennie, for the Liberal Democrats, adds that thousands of teachers are on precarious zero-hour contract, despite "all the fine rhetoric from this government on worker's rights".

Teachers in Scotland are the best-paid in the UK, Swinney retorts, and adds that there is a lower teacher-pupil ratio here.

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Tory MSP Miles Briggs asks what action the Scottish government is taking to address the reported issues with teacher job shortages, caused by temporary teacher contracts.

Swinney replies the latest data shows the number of teachers has increased and there is also encouraging progress in recruitment.

"I am pleased to announce today that we are launching a national recruitment campaign to encourage more people into secondary teaching, particularly in the subjects and areas where recruitment is most challenging," Swinney adds.

Briggs says most newly qualified teachers are no longer getting permanent jobs and he asks why ministers have "spectacularly failed" in this government's "disastrous education workforce planning".

Swinney insists there has been an increase in post-probation employment which demonstrates the progress being made.

Rachel Hamilton, the Conservative MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, says she does not think the first minister understands the concerns of Borders residents on the expansion of energy infrastructure.

She asks him to support her amendment - on a moratorium on new applications for new energy applications as well as a cumulative impact assessment on the natural environment - to prove that he is supporting Borders communities.

Swinney says they are making "sensible balances" between the protection of the environment and the ability to ensure Scotland benefits from the "abundant renewable energy" needed to provide energy security in the years to come.

Christine Grahame is the first backbencher to put her questions to the first minister and she focuses on the proposed expansion of wind turbines, battery storage facilities and pylons across the Scottish Borders.

The SNP MSP asks whether the Scottish government has carried out an assessment of the potential cumulative impact on the wildlife and the landscape.

This of course is extremely topical and was part of Donald Trump's address in Davos where he lambasted wind turbines.

The first minister says he completely understands the concerns of communities about the cumulative impact of energy infrastructure.

Proposals are subject to site specific assessments, he explains.

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Scottish Greens co-leader Gillian Mackay turns to the issue of football, saying supporters of Celtic, Falkirk and Motherwell have displayed banners backing her call for a £25 cap on away tickets.

"So will the first minister join me in the calls to cap away ticket prices?" asks the Scottish Greens co-leader.

The first minister replies he's happy to "give consideration to this issue".

Mackay explains she will use a summit to seek to "democratise football at every level" and she asks if the FM will join her.

Swinney says he's happy for his sport minister to be involved in these discussions.

Circumstantial evidence at best on 'political pressure' claimpublished at 12:35 GMT

12:35 GMT

Philip Sim
BBC Scotland political correspondent

This is obviously a hugely emotive case and a sensitive matter - Anas Sarwar calls it the biggest scandal in Holyrood’s history.

Both he and Russell Findlay homed in on the idea of “pressure” being applied to ensure the QEUH opened on time. Was that political pressure?

This is a case where the opposition clearly feel like they’re onto something, given the hospital opened around the time of a general election and its construction was (fairly obviously) something that ministers wanted to take credit for.

But as it stands that remains a feeling - circumstantial evidence at best - and the first minister’s denials were categorical. He insists ministers were not the ones to apply that pressure.

Anas Sarwar had a weighty document to hold aloft, but John Swinney stated that nobody in government had read it.

Perhaps this is why Findlay opened by pushing for more documents to be published - to see if there is anything in the way of hard evidence in them.

Sarwar pushes his point on the report on the children's hospital.

Pointing to Swinney, who was Nicola Sturgeon's deputy minister at the time, and Shona Robison, who was health secretary, Sarwar says: "Tell the truth. Who applied the pressure and why?"

Swinney says he has already answered that to Finlay.

He says when the water contamination was raised on 1 March 2018, they put in place a "sequence of events" that led to the inquiry.

It will provide answers to the family of Milly Main and others, he says.

Sarwar says it was negligence or criminal incompetence if this report was never seen by ministers in the Scottish government at the time.

He says families were "bullied", "gaslit" and "punished". Sarwar asks again who applied pressure to open a hospital with contaminated water.

The first minister points again to the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry. He says he agrees the experience of patients, families and whistle-blowers was "completely unacceptable".

"That's why the government set up a public inquiry," Swinney adds.

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Scottish Labour Party leader Anas Sarwar says much of Swinney's answers to Finlay are "simply not credible".

He highlights an internal report released before the opening of the children's hospital on the QEUH campus, warning of a risk of infection for immunocompromised patients.

"Pressure was applied and the hospital was opened anyway, with devastating consequences," he says.

Sarwar asks, who applied that pressure, and why?

Swinney points out the first recorded water contamination problem was in 2018, three years after the hospital opened, and "long after the report".

He acknowledges the significant public interest and says Lord Brodie must set out his conclusion in the inquiry.

The first minister acknowledges the pain and suffering of the families and that it has been compounded by the lengths they have had to go to to get the truth.

Swinney points out we must await the outcome of Lord Brodie's inquiry.

Russell Findlay returns: "Scotland wouldn't need to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on public inquiries if public bodies simply told the truth."

He claims pressure was applied to the board to open the hospital on time and on budget and it's now clear the hospital opened to early.

"Did Nicola Sturgeon or anybody else in the SNP government apply political pressure to open the hospital before it was ready?"

"The direct answer to that question is no," replies Swinney.

Findlay also pays tribute to the families.

"I'm in awe of their determination and their dignity," he adds.

The Scottish Tory leader says these families expect accountability and a reckoning for the board's leadership.

He asks: "So will John Swinney sack those responsible?"

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The first minister begins by expressing his sympathies to all of those people grieving the loss of a loved one.

John Swinney reminds the chamber the Scottish government established the public inquiry, led by Lord Brodie, to discover the truth.

He adds he has every confidence this will happen.

Swinney adds if there is anything further related to the business of government he is happy to release this - with appropriate redactions.

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Russell Findlay's first question relates to the Scottish Hospital Inquiry.

The Scottish Tory leader says child cancer patients Milly Main and Molly Cuddihy, adult patients Gail Armstrong and Tony Dines and two other children were all patients at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH), contracted infections and died.

He says the families of these people were "lied to and smeared".

"Now after years of lies and deception NHS bosses admit that it's likely that some infections were caused by the water supply," he says.

He argues John Swinney has so far refused to release all of the information that his government has about this scandal.

"Will he now do so?"

First Minister John Swinney is sitting in his seat on the SNP frontbench and Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay gets to his feet to begin this week's FMQs.

Families of patients who suffered or died after they caught infections while being treated at Scotland's largest hospital say they were "lied to", "demeaned" and "smeared".

The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) complex opened in Glasgow in 2015, but NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) has since said that it opened too early and faced design flaws.

It admitted infections of some cancer patients were probably linked to issues with the hospital water system.

NHSGGC offered a "sincere and unreserved" apology to the patients and families affected, and said the hospital was now safe.

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We're expecting the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry will come up at FMQs - as we've said, a topic of great interest to Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar.

The inquiry into the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital was launched to examine mistakes made in the planning, design and construction of the campus following concerns about unusual infections and the deaths of four patients, including 10-year-old Milly Main.

Earlier this week Sarwar called for John Swinney and Nicola Sturgeon to be investigated over failures at the hospital in Glasgow.

He said that complications at the hospital were "the biggest scandal in the history of the Scottish Parliament" and that he believed a "criminal act" had taken place.

He called for senior hospital figures and government ministers who were in post at the time of its opening to face investigation.

Sarwar also said this should include the first minister and finance secretary at the time, who were Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney respectively. Both Swinney and Sturgeon have been approached for comment.

Sarwar also called for the health secretary at the time - Shona Robison - to be among those investigated, along with various senior figures at the hospital.

The Scottish Conservatives also called for action on the issue from the current Health Secretary Neil Gray.

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What can we expect from FMQs this week?published at 11:36 GMT

11:36 GMT

Philip Sim
BBC Scotland political correspondent

It feels like one story has dominated Scottish politics this week.

OK, there has been quite a bit of chatter about Liam McArthur's assisted dying bill and its prospects of passing through parliament, but that is a non-partisan issue that is unlikely to trouble party leaders.

But the main thing has been the hospitals inquiry, and the admission that the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow opened too early.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has admitted "significant failings", and that infections among some child cancer patients were probably linked to the hospital's water system.

The current health secretary, Neil Gray, took a series of questions on Tuesday but gave the same answer to them all - that the government is committed to transparency on the matter, having set up the inquiry, but that it would be inappropriate for them to say or do anything which might affect its conclusions.

Opposition leaders like Anas Sarwar are keen to bring all of this back to the door of ministers like John Swinney and Nicola Sturgeon - the question is whether they can muster any kind of evidence to do so convincingly.