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Before I call Gordon Lindhurst, I point out that things are a little more relaxed in members’ business debates and, if a member presses their request-to-speak button, there is the opportunity to include them.
It is therefore appropriate that the Scottish Ministers are also given the flexibility to decide how best to enforce the register, as this may be dependent on how the register is designed and who is responsible for operating it. 26.
Anyone who supports devolution in this Parliament—regardless of party loyalty—should be very worried about those developments. I will pick up on a point that Alexander Stewart made when he talked about dispute resolution mechanisms.
In 2004, when the Civil Partnership Bill was going through Parliament, the major political imperative to ensure the passage of the bill was to insulate it from marriage.
Horizon, therefore, has been a really big talkingpoint with the universities. The second thing, as you would expect, is Erasmus+, which, again, links into the issue of youth mobility.
We know that the motion of no confidence today will be defeated. That gives me the opportunity to talk up our record and this Government’s considerable achievements, and to point out Labour’s lack of substance and its hypocrisy.
In the debate, we have rehearsed a lot of arguments that have been made previously. I will pick up on three points and take a constructive tone. First, Mr Briggs talked about a fiscal framework.
We note that the VRU has issued a clarification of the headline figure that was used in that newspaper report, but the fundamental point remains that the figures that the SNP puts out in press releases are inaccurate.