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Official Report
Meeting date:
21 January 2014
Meeting of the Parliament 21 January 2014
In my opinion, the best way of dealing with that would be to halt the austerity measures and to stop the worst impacts of welfare reform, and I hope that that will be possible in the very near future. 15:39 Dr Sir Thomas Browne created the word “suicide” meaning “to kill oneself” in the 17th century, but it has always been with us.
Official Report
Meeting date:
21 February 2013
Meeting of the Parliament 21 February 2013
If only we had our old friend Christopher Harvie with us to tell us how they do things in Germany—he might have had a bit to say about the old East German brown coal industry that might have informed us.There is much that has been discussed in the debate that will require a lot of attention, but even the minister made it quite clear that most of the things ...
Official Report
Meeting date:
11 December 2012
Meeting of the Parliament 11 December 2012
There will be a division.ForBaker, Claire (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab) Baxter, Jayne (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab) Bibby, Neil (West Scotland) (Lab) Boyack, Sarah (Lothian) (Lab) Brown, Gavin (Lothian) (Con) Carlaw, Jackson (West Scotland) (Con) Chisholm, Malcolm (Edinburgh Northern and Leith) (Lab) Davidson, Ruth (Glasgow) (Con) Dugdale, Kezia (Lothian) (...
Official Report
Meeting date:
25 April 2012
Meeting of the Parliament 25 April 2012
I record my appreciation for the two best housing ministers: the cabinet secretary, Alex Neil, and his friend and sidekick, Keith Brown, who are the Batman and Robin of housing.Working with COSLA, we have already filled the gap that the Tory-Lib Dem cuts to council tax benefit gave rise to, which could have badly affected the 558,000 people in Scotland on l...
Official Report
Meeting date:
24 September 2009
Plenary, 24 Sep 2009
The child is central to all of this.I agree with Robert Brown that today's debate has been too short.
Official Report
Meeting date:
22 February 2011
Public Petitions Committee 22 February 2011
Mr Brown said that, following that conversation, Mr Penning’s office contacted his office“regarding the next steps for a possible transfer of similar powers to the Scottish Parliament as have already been given to Wales.”I believe that Mr Brown is now in the process of formally requesting a transfer of powers in corr...
Official Report
Meeting date:
21 May 2015
Meeting of the Parliament 21 May 2015
We are at the start, not the end, of a process, and the watering down of some of the Smith proposals by the draft clauses means that they have to be revisited. Gordon Brown famously guaranteed that, if Scotland voted no, “We are going to be as close, within a year or two, to a federal state as you can be in a country where one ... nation has 85% of the ...
Official Report
Meeting date:
11 December 2014
Meeting of the Parliament 11 December 2014
Obviously a factor that has an effect on the share of the budget that is allocated to local government is the fact that we are passing on a real-terms increase to the health service, which I know is a policy position of which Gavin Brown has been supportive. In the context of the acute financial pressures with which we are wrestling, we are delivering a st...
Official Report
Meeting date:
4 December 2012
Meeting of the Parliament 04 December 2012
I understand why Tony Blair hired Alastair Campbell and Peter Mandelson, and why he flew to Australia to meet Rupert Murdoch. I understand why Gordon Brown tried in vain to maintain those relationships with the press barons.I also understand why a nationalist party that was keen first to convince the public that it was worth taking a chance on as a Scottish...
Official Report
Meeting date:
27 September 2012
Meeting of the Parliament 27 September 2012
We coped well with what the BBC described as “the worst September storm for thirty years”.We prepared well—Keith Brown worked closely with those local authorities that were likely to be affected, including Scottish Borders Council and Midlothian Council, ahead of the storms.
