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Chamber and committees

Meeting of the Parliament

Meeting date: Wednesday, April 28, 2010


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Parliamentary Bureau Motion

The Presiding Officer (Alex Fergusson)

The next item of business is consideration of Parliamentary Bureau motion S3M-6222, in the name of Bruce Crawford, on the approval of a Scottish statutory instrument.

Motion moved,

That the Parliament agrees that the Census (Scotland) Order 2010 to the extent that it relates to the following particulars in Schedule 2—

(a) item 1;

(b) in item 2, the words “and, as the case may be, where there are 5 or fewer persons in the household, the relationship of each of the previous persons mentioned in the return and where there are 6 or more persons in the household, the relationship of the sixth and subsequent persons to the two previously mentioned persons in the return”;

(c) item 7;

(d) in item 8, the words “and, if not born in the United Kingdom, month and year of most recent arrival to live in the United Kingdom”;

(e) items 9,10,12,14,17,18,19,20;

(f) in item 21, the words “on a Government sponsored training scheme;”

(g) items 22,27,28,30,31,33,34;

and items 1,2,3 and 4 of Schedule 3 to the Order, be approved.—[Bruce Crawford.]

The question on the motion will be put at decision time.