SCOTTISH Parliament business is set to resume with further tributes to the Queen following the late monarch’s state funeral.
Holyrood sittings were suspended after the Queen’s death with party leaders attending her funeral on Monday.
A special session on Tuesday will allow backbench MSPs to share their thoughts and reflections.
Proceedings are then expected to return to normal later in the week, with the Government working on tackling the cost-of-living crisis.
The Scottish Government has already committed to a package of support to help deal with rising costs including increasing the Scottish Child Payment.
Prior to the Queen’s death, Nicola Sturgeon announced plans for a rent freeze and an evictions ban.
However, the First Minister has previously said that “the most significant powers to tackle this crisis rest squarely with the UK Government”.
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is due to update MPs on Friday on proposals to cut taxes, as promised by Liz Truss throughout her leadership campaign.
The Scottish Government plans to draw up an emergency budget revision within two weeks of Kwarteng’s announcement.
Deputy First Minister John Swinney has already detailed more than £500 million of cuts and savings, warning of the impact and inflation on the Government’s budget as well as households and businesses.
Tuesday’s session will see new MSP Roz McCall being sworn in, offering an oath or affirmation to “be faithful and bear true allegiance” to King Charles.
The former Perth councillor is taking over as a Conservative MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife following the resignation of Dean Lockhart.
He had been an MSP since 2016 and was convener of Holyrood’s Net Zero Committee but resigned to take up a role in business.
A debate will be held to let backbench MSPs pay tribute to the late Queen, whose death at Balmoral prompted several days of ceremony in Scotland – including in Edinburgh where her coffin lay in state in St Giles’ Cathedral.
Party leaders already addressed their tributes to King Charles during a royal visit to the Parliament, which sits just across the road from the Palace of Holyroodhouse.
This included Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie, who told the new King that life isn’t “rooted in status or title”.
