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They are such a scourge on our countryside. I recently visited the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s Nethan Gorge reserve, and Japanese knotweed has started to grow there.
I will soon see at first hand the situation in Orkney, as I intend to visit Orkney in the near future, and a discussion about fuel poverty there is on the itinerary.
This is an excellent petition, and I praise the petitioner for getting it to us today and the Public Petitions Committee for the work that it has done. Like many members, I have visited the Knapdale site in Argyll and have seen the trial at first hand, and I am very enthusiastic about the work that has been done in the Argyll area and the potential to exten...
What is particularly significant is that it will continuously review new studies and new evidence, and will carefully consider how that new evidence can be incorporated into pathways of care.
The committee might wish to bear it in mind that, in the past year, we have had significant change in the organisation’s senior leadership. We have a new Crown Agent and new law officers.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the report on the fact-finding visit to the UK by the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, and how this will inform its plan to tackle child poverty in Scotland.
Questions and Answers
Date lodged:
30 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what response it has received from the UK Government to the concerns that it has raised regarding people from Scotland being blocked from returning from overseas visits due to the United States imposing a travel ban.
It is proposed that under item 6 we discuss in private our approach to consideration of reports laid under section 26 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010.