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A couple of agenda items do not relate to the rural housing inquiry, so those of you who are here for that will have to bear with me.I have received formal apologies from Mike Rumbles MSP and Des McNulty MSP. We have Christine Grahame MSP with us.
Motion agreed to, That the Parliament appoints Bill Aitken MSP as a Fund trustee of the Scottish Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund, further to his nomination for such appointment by the Parliamentary corporation.
Outwith the conversation that the First Minister has just described with the chief constable, in June the assistant chief constable, Wayne Mawson, came to Holyrood and told MSPs that searching children younger than 12 is “indefensible” and that it would be scrapped.
Now that the Secretary of State for Defence has corrected the record, perhaps Conservative MSPs—I heard Murdo Fraser talking about the issue this very morning—will now acknowledge that there was a mistake in the information that was given so belatedly to the House of Commons last week.