This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
Had the order been presented to the committee earlier, the committee would have been able to consider it before the recess. We should make those points to the Executive.
We have a lot of items to squeeze in before the recess, and I suspect that people will not want to meet during the recess—although that would not particularly bother me.
Delaying the report until after the summer recess would give us time to undertake those visits during the recess, particularly if they were in our constituencies.
Again, he has made a plea for a moratorium on questions being lodged during the summer recess. His plea is for a four-week moratorium within the summer recess and not for a moratorium for the whole summer recess.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to make any announcements during the parliamentary recess; if so, when any such announcements will be made and why they will be made during recess.
The only comment that might be worth adding relates to the well-attended rally in Edinburgh on our first day back after the recess. The committee should recognise that the pig industry was at the top of the agenda there.
The paper recommends that the committee"agree that reporters should undertake consultation and travel over the Summer Recess as outlined above".We should add the words "and anything subsequently identified" to that recommendation.