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People who are motivated not by community interests but by lobbying interests might be tempted to use the public gallery as a means of lobbying MSPs. That is an important point. The promoters of the paper are not trying to prevent public access; they are simply trying to define how it should happen and to empower conveners to control a public meeting that m...
I have never before known compensation to be completely denied—just flung out of the window—through legislation. I am an urban leftie MSP, one of the people whom the Scottish Countryside Alliance most dislikes.
However, if it is not sorted out and the voluntary organisations do not receive their funding, MSPs and ministers will have to deal with demands from those organisations for a temporary solution to be put in place.
However, if it is not sorted out and the voluntary organisations do not receive their funding, MSPs and ministers will have to deal with demands from those organisations for a temporary solution to be put in place.
I know that there is a great tendency for ministers and MSPs to throw about statistics, but as Mrs Ullrich has asked me, I should remind her that this year there is £300 million of new money in the health service.
I refer the Member to myletter to all MSPs of 11 May 2006. A copy of the letter is available at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-06/pa06-046.htm.
To ask the Presiding Officer whether it will provide MSPs with a staff training and development budget to enable them to provide similar personal and career development opportunities to their staff to those offered to staff directly employed by it.
To ask the Presiding Officer, further to the answer to question S2W-7769 by Duncan McNeil on 12 May 2004, how it is decided whether any classroom-based course being offered to its staff is appropriate to MSPs' staff and who makes such decisions.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 January 2004
To ask the Presiding Officer whether members of the Holyrood Progress Group will offer to give evidence to the Holyrood Inquiry and whether non-MSP members of the group will provide a statement or precognition of their evidence to the Holyrood Inquiry.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any plans for transcripts of criminal and civil court cases to be made available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre or the National Library to assist MSPs in their parliamentary and constituency business.