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However, item 6 concerns an issue that is very important for us and I would like it to be taken in public so that it is included in the Official Report. We can go then back and compare what we wanted to do with what has been done.
Thank you for calling me, Presiding Officer—persistence pays off.Does the First Minister believe that Scotland's ability to attract inward investment is enhanced by the appointment to the impartial position of part-time chairman of employment tribunals of a full-time trade union official? Interruption. The First Minister should know about such things.
The vast bulk of the committee's work on the matter must be in the Official Report—that will be important to people who are considering how we do our work.
We are grateful to the minister and his team for coming a little later than planned, because of our earlier delay.We are discussing an affirmative instrument of subordinate legislation: the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) (Orkney) (Scotland) Order 2000 (SSI 2000/192). If members would like to ask officials about any ...
The opportunity would not be lost, at some time in the future—on the basis of practice—to reopen this question on the initiative of the parliament."—Official Report, House of Lords, 17 November 1998; Vol 594, c 1195.The door is open.
I am sure that Mrs Scanlon, as a front-bench spokesperson, recognises that we do rather well in Scotland. According to the last official figures, from April 1999, the vacancy rate was 1 per cent.
On Thursday 4 November, you said that it is up to "the Executive which statements are of sufficient policy significance to be made in Parliament."—Official Report, 4 November 1999; Vol 3, c 356.