S5M-04440.2 Monica Lennon: International Women's Day As an amendment to motion S5M- — 04440 in the name of Angela Constance (International Women's Day), after second workplace “ ” insert "; regrets that the gender pay gap means that women earn significantly less than men, which over the course of a working life is likely to represent hundreds of thousands of pounds of lost income, impacting pension contributions and the ability to save; acknowledges that women remain under-represented in senior roles across politics, business, the public sector, the media, culture and sport, with 73% of leadership roles in Scotland held by men; recognises the Engender report, Sex and Power in Scotland 2017, which lays bare these statistics; welcomes the Scottish Government s commitment to a bill on gender representation on public boards; agrees that the ’ lack of progress towards gender equality in the Parliament, councils and public boards is unacceptable; commends the Women 50:50 campaign and its evidenced-based call for legislative gender quotas". followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5:30 pm Decision Time followed by Members' Business Debate on the subject of— S5M-02900 Alex Rowley: Local Government Finance and the State of the Debt That the — Parliament welcomes the work of Unite the Union Scotland in producing its paper, Local Government Finance and the State of the Debt; understands that the paper estimates that Scotland’s local authorities, which includes Fife Council, have around £2.4 billion of pre-Scottish devolution debt liabilities owed to the Public Works Loan Board (PWLB), with an average rate of return of 8%; further understands that post-devolution interest rates paid to PWLB are only around half this; notes that pre-devolution interest rates were not independently set by the Bank...