Meeting of the Parliament

Meeting date: Thursday, February 24, 2011

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Business Motion

Good morning. The first item of business this morning is consideration of business motion S3M-7990, in the name of Bruce Crawford, on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, which sets out a timetable for stage 3 of the Patient Rights (Scotland) Bill. If any member wishes to speak against the motion, they should press their request-to-speak button now.

Motion moved,

That the Parliament agrees that, during Stage 3 of the Patient Rights (Scotland) Bill, debate on groups of amendments shall, subject to Rule 9.8.4A, be brought to a conclusion by the time limit indicated, that time limit being calculated from when the Stage begins and excluding any periods when other business is under consideration or when a meeting of the Parliament is suspended (other than a suspension following the first division in the Stage being called) or otherwise not in progress:

Groups 1 and 2: 20 minutes

Groups 3 to 6: 40 minutes

Groups 7 and 8: 1 hour 5 minutes.—[Bruce Crawford.]

Mr Kelly has pressed his button, but I assume that he does not wish to speak against the motion.

No.

That was just pre-empting the next item of business, I think.

The question is, that motion S3M-7990, in the name of Bruce Crawford, be agreed to.

Motion agreed to.