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.
To ask the Scottish Executive to specify the estimated cost to local authorities in Scotland of converting from Sterling to the Euro and whether local authorities will be expected to meet this cost from their existing resources.
I commend Murdo Fraser for his diligence when he was convener of the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Consolidation) (Scotland) Bill Committee and thank him for his evidence to the Procedures Committee.
The ECHR seems to affect every aspect of legislation going through the Parliament to the extent that, under the Scotland Act 1998, every bill that comes before us should be checked off against European legislation and the ECHR in particular.
We should certainly have a briefing on the proposed bill to replace the Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) (Members' Interests) Order 1998.
The registration would consist of: the name of the lobbying company or individual; the organisation on whose behalf they were lobbying; the subject on which they were lobbying; whether they were lobbying a particular category of MSPs—for example, they might be lobbying only members of the Social Justice Committee on the Housing (Scotland) Bill—and how much ...
I am not interested in that sort of democracy and I do not want to import it here.I accept that, if I move an amendment to the Transport (Scotland) Bill—on which I am working at the moment—and I lose the vote on it by 10 votes to one, it is reasonable that I do not get another go at stage 3.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it is making to meet any additional workforce requirements for construction and transport infrastructure projects in Scotland associated with the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many and what percentage of medical graduates left Scotland for their first posts in each of the last five years, broken down by medical school and category of graduate.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the exemption from the payment of water and sewerage charges extended to Church of Scotland congregations will be continued after 2010 when the current scheme is due to end.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the length of contract is with Bio Products Laboratory to supply plasma products to NHS Scotland and on which date the contract commenced.