Question reference: S1W-00860
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 10 August 1999
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Current status: Answered by David Steel on 23 August 1999
Question
To ask the Presiding Officer whether the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body intends to make available any assistance, financial or otherwise, for all-party parliamentary groups.
Answer
Clerks are currently preparing draft proposals for the establishment of a scheme to register all party parliamentary groups, to be considered by the Standards Committee. Once such a scheme is in place, the SPCB will be invited to consider what facilities might be made available to registered groups, such as access to meeting rooms in the Parliamentary buildings, and access to catering facilities. An announcement on the arrangements to be put in place will be made in the Business Bulletin in due course.