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Official Report
Meeting date:
19 May 2005
Plenary, 19 May 2005
I am sure that the European beaver is largely harmless, but could the precedent ultimately lead to the return of the wolf or even the brown bear in the Scottish Highlands?
Official Report
Meeting date:
2 March 2005
Plenary, 02 Mar 2005
Among charities, Oxfam in particular has pioneered support for the producers of goods.The make poverty history campaign—led by Hilary Benn and Gordon Brown, by Des McNulty in this Parliament and by others—is helping to accelerate the momentum behind fair trade as a means of giving genuine economic choice to producers in their own towns and villages: jobs, n...
Official Report
Meeting date:
9 February 2005
Plenary, 09 Feb 2005
As we have already heard this afternoon, in the Scottish budget fairytale Peter Pan McConnell is the beneficiary of good fairy Tinkerbell Brown's block grant. Members will recall that Mr Darling had only a bit part in the Peter Pan story.
Official Report
Meeting date:
19 January 2005
Plenary, 19 Jan 2005
As the bill is now nearing the end of its passage, this is the appropriate time to consider a Sewel motion on it.Some time ago, my colleague, the vice-convener of the Liberal Democrats, Robert Brown, wrote to the Lord Chancellor suggesting that much of the apprehension over a supreme court diluting the Scottish legal system could be overcome by establishing...
Official Report
Meeting date:
8 December 2004
Plenary, 08 Dec 2004
It is right that we raise such concerns in this debate.Another concern of mine is that Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has announced that 2005 will be the year of the volunteer.
Official Report
Meeting date:
2 December 2004
Plenary, 02 Dec 2004
It would have been helpful if Mike Rumbles had given us some practical examples relating to domestic abuse services—not services for rape victims and others—which might have been developed in response to his point.A heavy dose of perspective and attention to practical issues is required if the discussion is to cast light on policy options. Will Robert Brown...
Official Report
Meeting date:
26 November 2003
Plenary, 26 Nov 2003
There are differences between Gordon Brown, Jack Straw and the Prime Minister on the issue, but I am delighted, if ministers have now read the fine print of the constitution and have seen the dangers, that they will sign up to if they adopt it.One of the main reasons for drawing up the new constitution was to allow the 10 new nations to enter.
Official Report
Meeting date:
20 March 2003
Plenary, 20 Mar 2003
This is a timely debate following our debate on the passage of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Bill, during which the subject of suicide was occasionally touched on.In speaking to the motion today, I must first thank Mark O'Dowd and Gavin Brown of Glasgow Junior Chamber of Commerce, who first proposed a national suicide helpline called "pr...
Official Report
Meeting date:
10 October 2002
Plenary, 10 Oct 2002
It being national poetry day, I feel that I should have brought at least one poem by George Mackay Brown or Sorley Maclean, but I neglected to do so.I was born in Thurso and have lived in the Orkneys, so I am always glad to receive invitations to return to the Highlands, even if they are similar to the last two that I received—to open a sewage works and to ...
Official Report
Meeting date:
17 April 2002
Social Justice Committee, 17 Apr 2002
Finally—I report this from the voluntary sector side yesterday and I hope that it is right—the Audit Commission has started work on how to measure and acknowledge added value. To answer Mr Brown's question, perhaps we are slightly further back than he hoped, but the issue is certainly live and work is being done on it.
