Plenary, 22 Dec 2004

Meeting date: Wednesday, December 22, 2004

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Parliamentary Bureau Motions

The next item of business is consideration of two Parliamentary Bureau motions. I ask Margaret Curran to move motions S2M-2191 and S2M-2192, on the designation of lead committees.

Motions moved,

That the Parliament agrees that the Justice 2 Committee be designated as lead committee in consideration of the following instruments—

the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Protection of Children) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (SSI 2004/526);

the draft Scotland Act 1998 (Modifications to Schedule 5) Order 2005; and

the draft Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2005.

That the Parliament agrees that the Health Committee be designated as lead committee in consideration of the Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1.—[Ms Margaret Curran.]

The question on those motions will be put at decision time.

After sitting here all afternoon, cutting down on members' time, giving them severe looks and tapping the microphone, I find that, at the end of proceedings, I am left with two spare minutes.

Speech!

I am afraid that it would set all sorts of undesirable precedents if I were to accept the invitation that members are pressing on me.

In these circumstances, there are two options. The first is to suspend the meeting until 5 o'clock and the second is to take a motion without notice to bring forward decision time. Since no notice of that possibility was given to the business managers and, therefore, to all members, I will exercise the first option.

Meeting suspended.

On resuming—