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The next question is, that motion S3M-3318, in the name of Bruce Crawford, on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, on parliamentary recessdates, be agreed to. Motion agreed to.
Do you expect that to be before the October recess, for example? I think that that is unlikely at this stage, but we will publish the reports at the earliest opportunity, once we have concluded all that work.
That is why fuel poverty has been a much greater challenge in recent times than it was prior to the recession. Will the cabinet secretary provide an estimate of how many people would be in fuel poverty if the cost of fuel had increased in line with inflation since 2011?
(S4T-00369) As the First Minister set out in the programme for government on 4 September 2012, we will introduce the marriage and civil partnership (Scotland) bill within the 2012-13 parliamentary year, so the bill will be introduced before the forthcoming summer recess. I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer, because the proposed bill offers equalit...
We have an opportunity to work intensely and at pace, and we can bring forward a finalised NPF4 for Parliament to vote on and for ministers to adopt by the summer recess. That reflects the collaborative work that has been undertaken over the past two years.
If Michael Marra wants another bite of the cherry because he did not ask a suitable question in the first place— That would be a matter for the Presiding Officer. The date that we will look at will be the date of the teacher census, because those are the official statistics.
For example, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill, which the Parliament passed just before the Christmas recess, gives two of the office-holders the ability to raise legal action on behalf of the people whom they represent.
In terms of uptake rates, this is difficult to calculate as APS (the Baby Box Delivery Agent) only collects data on expected due date (since the boxes are delivered 4-6 weeks prior to the due date) but not the actual birth dates.