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Promises that the Scottish Executive made in the previous session to address the issue are now fulfilled by the Sewel motion, which will improve control over the availability of fireworks and go a long way towards ensuring that fireworks do not get into the wrong hands—the hands of those who wish only to create mischief.I will make the point clear: the hundreds of constituents who attended the public meetings in Kilmarnock and Loudoun that my Westminster colleague Des Browne...
Furthermore, privatisation was not universally beneficial, as some proponents would have us believe. Indeed, Sir Patrick Brown, the civil servant in charge of privatisation, has since said that customers lost out with privatisation.
As each project is developed, we eat into the number of people who fall into the category to which Robert Brown refers. In Glasgow, that group is now relatively small.
We are absolutely on schedule. Robert Brown, you have four minutes. This has been an interesting debate, but it went off slightly half-cocked at the beginning because the SNP amendment addresses issues that are fairly peripheral to the central matter.
That strength has been delivered by the actions of the UK Government and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, which have given Scotland the lowest level of unemployment for three decades, the lowest interest rates for decades and the lowest inflation rates for decades.
The trust that must exist between an individual client and his or her adviser is, as Robert Brown will know as a solicitor, important to the relationship during the coming and going of negotiations and the difficulties that that involves.
Perhaps you could consider that.In your introduction, you said that the national health service is getting extra money from Gordon Brown at the expense of local government.
We are debating this crucial issue here in Edinburgh, but our European neighbours are meeting elsewhere and this Parliament and Government will be posted missing.It was left to the SNP to secure Scotland's only two representatives at the convention: Professor Sir Neil MacCormick MEP and Councillor Keith Brown will be present, ensuring that Scotland is repre...
However, it is worth remembering that, when the tobacco tax increased—not this year, unfortunately, but last year—Gordon Brown allocated 25 per cent of that additional tax to health education against smoking.
In what was said today, and at least in parts of its report on whether the order would become part of the law in Scotland, the Executive has made it quite clear what it was trying to do. But to return to what Robert Brown said, we feel that the Executive has completely missed the mark.