Voting has been suspended at the Scottish Parliament following a “significant Microsoft outage”.

Holyrood’s Presiding Officer said technical issues meant MSPs were unable to vote on Wednesday evening.

The Downdetector website has reported significant spikes in outages impacting the Royal Bank of Scotland, BT and Asda.

It also reported thousands of issues with Xbox, Minecraft and Azure – all owned by Microsoft. Heathrow is also reportedly experiencing issues.

Politicians at the Scottish Parliament were taking part in the second of two marathon sessions to vote on nearly 400 amendments to the Land Reform Bill.

MSPs had been only been debating changes to the legislation for around half an hour before issues arose just before 4.30pm.

Alison Johnstone, the Presiding Officer, said she had

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