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In relation to Bruce Crawford's point, I am moving towards the view that we should have question time and First Minister's question time on different days. That would clearly separate the two and we would not have a situation in which people go for lunch after FMQT and do not bother to come back for question time.
I have a bit of difficulty with Tavish Scott's position, because the other day he disagreed with our arguing for the retention of eight MEPs from Scotland.
It advocated such views as 16-year-olds' being unsuitable to have the vote, for example. The next day, I phoned up "Newsnight" and asked for an explanation.
It found out that 60 per cent had become 45 per cent only when it signed on the dotted line and even that level of funding is not guaranteed for future work.Our point is that it would be helpful for Historic Scotland to be open and transparent at day one, by letting people know that whatever level of funding is available for the first phase of a project wil...
I understand that a regular pattern has emerged: we receive the Sewel motion after the bill has been published, and the Parliament—never mind the Executive—first sees it only a few days before it is asked to debate it.
A tank was getting cleaned the other week—I do not know what day it was—and the inspector brought a sample in at a quarter past 3; however, the guy who picks up the samples had left at 3 o'clock.
Does that have to be done annually? How necessary is it these days? I do not imagine that councils do that voluntarily anyway; they do not have the money to do so.
First, on the issue of the logging of dates, we have found that, by and large, the majority of questions are answered within 14 days and that the speed of answering questions is constantly increasing.
It concerns me that something so important seems to have escaped this committee and the Local Government Committee until quite late in the day. That is why amendments are being lodged now.