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Finance and Sustainable Growth Before we come to questions, I echo what the Presiding Officer said earlier: in order to get as many people in as possible, we would prefer short and succinct questions, and answers to match.
The next question is, that motion S4M-15356, in the name of Patrick Harvie, as amended, on jobs in Scotland’s new economy, be agreed to. Are we agreed?
If we are preventing people from participating by getting such basic things wrong, we still have a considerable amount of work to do.Having made those points, I welcome the fact that we have reached this stage.
Are members also content to ask about proposals to amend the provision at stage 2? We might get a useful snapshot of the Government's intentions.Members indicated agreement.
There can be nothing worse than an election such as one consisting of three candidates, let us say with a franchise of 1,000 electors, with the winner getting 400 votes and the other two getting 300 votes each, combining to make 600.