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.
One child dies of hunger-related causes every five seconds. The food crisis has plunged an extra 100 million people into poverty, with food prices continuing to rise.
It is a good question, which opens up an extra stream of work that we could and should do, and probably have done, but we will report back and fulfil on that front.
However, should an urgent priority arise, are you able to postpone assignments to take on extra work, or is there an alternative route by which you can fund unplanned work?
If mortgage rates, which are at an historical low, go up by 2 per cent, they will pay an extra £4,000 a year, or an extra £333 a month, on their mortgage.
I did not wish to introduce new material at stage 3, particularly on such a consensual bill—I am sure that everyone is relieved to hear that there was not an extra amendment this afternoon—so I did not lodge that amendment.