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I have a wee supplementary to Mr Brown’s question on business rates. Will the business rates be re-evaluated as part of the business bonus scheme review?
Their main point concerned the preparation of food, which Keith Brown and David McLetchie have spoken about, and they stressed the need for clarification of the rules.
That action, which was welcomed by unions and management at Grangemouth, was in contrast to the advice that I received from the then Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who told me not to interfere in such matters.
Although the Scottish employment rate, as a result of the recession, has recently fallen just below the UK average, Scotland’s employment rate performance has been the highest of all UK countries during 11 out of the 13 quarters of this Administration. We heard earlier from Gavin Brown about business tariff rates, entrepreneurship and labour market particip...
—Official Report, House of Commons, 10 March 2010; Vol 507, c 319. Has Robert Brown contacted Greg Mulholland to tell him that the entire Liberal Democrat Party in the House of Common risks going ultra vires on European law, or does he think that it would only be illegal in Scotland and not in England?
The second question is, that amendment S3M-4810.2, in the name of Robert Brown, which seeks to amend motion S3M-4810, in the name of Fergus Ewing, on the fire and rescue framework, be agreed to.