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Official Report
Meeting date:
19 December 2000
Procedures Committee, 19 Dec 2000
I do not disagree in principle with what Donald Gorrie is saying, but we both sit on the Transport and the Environment Committee and are aware that we have had quite a bit more than nine whole sitting days—I cannot remember whether it is three or four weeks but it has been a reasonably adequate period—to deal with the necessary work between stages 2 and 3 of the Transport (Scotland) Bill.Have our criticisms been over-influenced by the situation that we experienced in the summer, when a lot of business was being compressed because bills had to be passed before the recess...
Official Report
Meeting date:
25 October 2000
Health and Community Care Committee, 25 Oct 2000
The announcement that I made in Parliament just before the recess on services for older people set out some of the specific measures that we are implementing to ensure that effective joint planning and budgeting mechanisms are put in place at a local level across the country.
Official Report
Meeting date:
20 September 2000
Plenary, 20 Sep 2000
Decisions on school closures are always difficult.Members will recall that the Education, Culture and Sport Committee asked me to look into the issue of rural schools and rural schools closures, and I produced my report just before the summer recess. One thing that struck me quite forcibly in conducting that exercise is that having detailed debates such as ...
Official Report
Meeting date:
28 June 2000
Plenary, 28 Jun 2000
The legislative proposals, which we will publish after the recess, will have to be workable within the Scottish criminal justice system.
Official Report
Meeting date:
22 June 2000
Plenary, 22 Jun 2000
I welcome the fact that Iain Gray will respond for the Executive, not only as the Deputy Minister for Community Care but as the constituency MP for Edinburgh Pentlands, in which Milestone House is located.I visited the hospice in the Easter recess and can vouch for the fact that it is a unique national health care facility, with committed staff, who provide...
Official Report
Meeting date:
8 December 1999
Plenary, 08 Dec 1999
Hawick's economy has had a battering over the past 18 months with the loss of manufacturing jobs, but I want to emphasise the strong signs of recovery and the opportunities in the town. In addition to the severe recession in agriculture, which affected the town because it supplies services and goods to farmers in the surrounding areas, Hawick suffered from ...
Official Report
Meeting date:
1 September 1999
Plenary, 01 Sep 1999
I welcome this debate; we have found ourselves in an interesting situation, in that the first question in the Scottish Parliament was on the issue of the Cowal-Dunoon ferry service and the first members' debate after the recess is on the Cowal situation again.
Official Report
Meeting date:
16 June 1999
Plenary, 16 Jun 1999
The second, which has also featured in my discussions with other local manufacturers—Dupont and Cochran's, for example, both of which have recently announced intentions to downsize as it is known—was the effect of the recession in Russia and the far east. As a consequence of the collapse of the markets there, companies trading in those areas have moved in t...
Official Report
Meeting date:
19 September 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill Committee, 19 Sep 2005
It is my understanding, which is based on the material that the promoter provided to the committee pre-recess in which the consultations that were associated with each of the stages of safeguarding were set out.
Official Report
Meeting date:
11 November 1999
Plenary, 11 Nov 1999
One of the visits that I undertook during the summer recess was to British Energy, whose headquarters are in East Kilbride.
