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Chamber and committees

Meeting of the Parliament

Meeting date: Wednesday, May 23, 2012


Contents


Welfare Reform (Further Provision) (Scotland) Bill: Financial Resolution

The Presiding Officer (Tricia Marwick)

The next item of business is consideration of motion S4M-02778, in the name of John Swinney, on the financial resolution on the Welfare Reform (Further Provision) (Scotland) Bill.

Motion moved,

That the Parliament, for the purposes of any Act of the Scottish Parliament resulting from the Welfare Reform (Further Provision) (Scotland) Bill, agrees to any expenditure of a kind referred to in Rule 9.12.3(b) of the Parliament’s Standing Orders arising in consequence of the Act.—[Nicola Sturgeon.]

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