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Chamber and committees

Meeting of the Parliament

Meeting date: Wednesday, September 5, 2018


Contents


Decision Time

The Presiding Officer (Ken Macintosh)

There are two questions to be put as a result of today’s business. The first question is, that motion S5M-13744, in the name of Graeme Dey, on designation of a lead committee, be agreed to.

Motion agreed to,

That the Parliament agrees that the Local Government and Communities Committee be designated as the lead committee in consideration of the Fuel Poverty (Target, Definition and Strategy) (Scotland) Bill at stage 1.

The Presiding Officer

The second question is, that motion S5M-13748, in the name of Graeme Dey, on parliamentary recess dates, be agreed to.

Motion agreed to,

That the Parliament agrees, further to motion S5M-12897 in the name of Joe FitzPatrick on 19 June 2018, the following parliamentary recess dates under Rule 2.3.1: 9 to 17 February 2019 (inclusive), 6 to 21 April 2019 (inclusive), 30 June to 1 September 2019 (inclusive), 12 to 27 October 2019 (inclusive), 21 December 2019 to 5 January 2020 (inclusive).