We now proceed to agenda item 6, on the convener's report. Members will pleased that I will be brief. The stage 1 report on the Title Conditions (Scotland) Bill will be published on Friday 15 November and the stage 1 debate will be on 21 November. The debate will last for three hours and will be for insomniacs anonymous.
Who decided that we will have a three-hour debate?
To the best of my knowledge, the Parliamentary Bureau makes such decisions.
The decision is absolutely insane. Can we make representations to the bureau that the debate will dry up within an hour?
I would be content to make representations through my business manager and I suggest that other members speak to their business managers. Sometimes I have had to fight for fair debates. Only two hours was allocated to the debate on prison estates, so I am astonished that the debate on the Title Conditions (Scotland) Bill has been given so much time. The debate will be all morning on a Thursday. I am content to say that other business should be discussed. Are members content with that? I do not know how long the debate should be. Perhaps we should ask for it to be truncated to two hours at the most.
I would be content with that.
I suggest that the debate should be an hour and a half. I would have great difficulty in speaking at length about the bill.
That is saying something. Donald Gorrie is a master of speaking—I mean that as a compliment. I will make a formal approach to the business managers and I ask members to speak informally to their business managers.
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