Contents
- Scottish Parliament Thursday 22 June 2000
- McCrone Report
- Petrol and Diesel Prices
- Scottish Criminal Record Office
- Business Motion
- Care Standards Bill
- Milestone House Hospice
- Question Time
- First Minister's Question Time
- Bail, Judicial Appointments etc (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
- Bail, Judicial Appointments etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Resolution
- Parliamentary Bureau Motions
- Decision Time
Scottish Parliament Thursday 22 June 2000
[The Presiding Officer opened the meeting at 09:30]
Good morning. Before we start the business of the day, I should inform the chamber that I have accepted a request from the Executive for an emergency statement on the emerging findings of Her Majesty's chief inspector of constabulary in his inspection of the Scottish Criminal Records Office. That will take place at 12.15 pm, by agreement with the SNP, whose morning this is. That means that the second debate this morning will be a quarter of an hour shorter. Mr McLetchie has kindly agreed to delay his members' business by a quarter of an hour.
We are very tight for time throughout the morning. I appeal to the opening speakers to stick strictly to the time limits, so that as many members as possible can participate in the two debates.
We accept that the statement needs to be made, but we decided that we would take 10 minutes off our longer debate on fuel duty, and five minutes off the debate on the McCrone report.
That is fine. I had been told only that 15 minutes would be taken off the morning's debates. The first debate will, therefore, be five minutes shorter than was intended, which is very short indeed.
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