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Through the activities and policies that it has implemented, the Government has ensured that the Scottish economy has been able to recover to pre-recession levels of activity earlier than the rest of the United Kingdom.
(S4O-01861) The current sound and voting system was installed during the 2011 summer recess and has in place a 10-year support and maintenance contract, so we have no current plans to upgrade it.
Spending time in the constituency over recess is one of my favourite aspects of being an MSP, although returning here to Holyrood was going to be a pleasure—right up until I heard those last two speeches.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 February 2019
However, around 0.2% of payments have been made to carers who moved to an address outside Scotland between the eligibility date and payment date, or to next of kin living outside Scotland.
We tend to have an away day in the summer to look at our work programme in detail before coming back from the recess. We schedule meetings for dates when we know we will be considering, for example, financial memoranda or, indeed, the budget process, but we have flexible dates...
I encourage members to reflect on the programme and perhaps have a conversation with my successor after the summer recess on your perception of how we might flex and improve the programme of work.