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The wider economic context is also concerning—the effects of Brexit are still being felt, there is an acute cost crisis and there could be a recession on the horizon. It is important to put economic inactivity in the right longer-term and international perspective.
I ask George Adam, on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, to move motions S6M-01232 to S6M-01239, on approval of Scottish statutory instruments; S6M-01240, on parliamentary recessdates; and S6M-01242, on suspension and variation of standing orders.
If there is a division on this motion, it is decided by a simple majority of those voting.
Footnotes
4. Recessdates are available under About / Recessdates; there is a link from that page to Office of the Clerk dates.
We are in the last week before the Parliament goes into recess, so can you advise whether you have had a request from the Scottish Government to make a statement on that matter, so that all the women out there whose last hope is Dr Veronikis coming here will know exactly what is going on?
Decision on Taking Business in Private Good morning and welcome to the third meeting in 2020 of the Finance and Constitution Committee. Parliament is in recess, but due to the budget timescales this year, we have had to arrange a meeting this week.
Both Scotland and the UK appear to be recovering from the post-financial crash recession and we have found ourselves in a low-productivity growth, high-employment scenario or equilibrium, to use a phrase that I used earlier.
In the Dundee, Hamilton and Paisley courts, as well as the other courts that have started to adopt the model, there is an increasing certainty that, if you are told that a trial will be on a particular date, it will take place on that date.
My worry, which I know that other members share, is that, by specifying dates, you go into an arena of not specifying other dates such as other religious festivals or other events that might be important to people.