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Chamber and committees

Meeting of the Parliament

Meeting date: Tuesday, January 13, 2015


Contents


Business Motion

The Deputy Presiding Officer (John Scott)

The next item of business is consideration of business motion S4M-12046, in the name of Joe FitzPatrick, on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, which sets out a variation and a suspension to standing orders to allow a debate on a Scottish statutory instrument this afternoon.

Motion moved,

That the Parliament agrees that, for the purpose of the debate on motion S4M-11985 on the Public Services Reform (Inspection and Monitoring of Prisons) (Scotland) Order 2014 [draft] on Tuesday 13 January 2015, in Rule 10.6.5 of Standing Orders—

(a) delete

one speaker

and insert

two speakers

(b) the third sentence be suspended.—[Joe FitzPatrick.]

Motion agreed to.