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Budget Process(Written Agreements) The next item of business is consideration of motions S2M-3234 and S2M-3235, in the name of Des McNulty, on behalf of the Finance Committee, on written agreements in respect of the budget process.
It comes as no surprise that the minister should give that answer, but is he aware of the wide-ranging concern that has been expressed even by Labour members in Forth valley and by trade unions about Forth Valley NHS Board's decision to privatise the jobs of some 700 soft-furnishing staff when they move to the new hospital at the Larbert site?
It has also confirmed that the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 does not contain an express enabling power for the making of retrospective provisions.Do members want to draw the regulations to the attention of the lead committee and the Parliament, on the ground that they purport to have retrospective effect although the parent act contains no express authority for that?
He is being initiated in the best committee in the Parliament. As Brian replaces Des McNulty, I take the opportunity of paying tribute to Des's work on the committee.
I understand that the fur farming bill will be introduced at some stage, but that it should not take up a huge amount of our work load.Under secondary legislation, I ask that the committee agrees "that I should seek the endorsement of the Conveners' Liaison Group and the consent of the Parliamentary Bureau to hold a meeting for this purpose in the Loch Lomo...
I am sure that the whole chamber will join me in expressing those sentiments to those people.I hope that you, Sir David, and I can write to the Assembly expressing those sentiments.