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Official Report
Meeting date:
6 June 2013
Referendum (Scotland) Bill Committee 06 June 2013
What is missing in this debate is the voice of victims of crime. Any MSP who is close to what is going on in their constituency, particularly if they have an urban constituency, will know that crime such as antisocial behaviour may be termed “low level” in debates in the Parliament, but it can have a really stressful impact on families, individuals and comm...
Official Report
Meeting date:
5 June 2013
Meeting of the Parliament 05 June 2013
We celebrated the opening of the first men’s shed in Scotland—the Westhill Men’s Shed—a community project that I had the pleasure of visiting with the local constituency MSP, Dennis Robertson.I am proud that the Westhill Men’s Shed has been nominated as a contender for the people’s choice award by the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.
Official Report
Meeting date:
8 May 2013
Meeting of the Parliament 08 May 2013
We now move to the open debate.16:14 I welcome the opportunity to speak in support of Alex Neil’s amendment, and want to focus my four minutes on the specific longer-term healthcare and social care challenges that Scotland as a society faces and which the Scottish people will look to MSPs to address and resolve together.Let us be clear: it is a mark of our ...
Official Report
Meeting date:
26 March 2013
Meeting of the Parliament 26 March 2013
A unified management approach is key to the continued operation of one of the east coast’s most vital transport structures and, in particular, the creation of the Forth replacement crossing. As MSP for Kirkcaldy, I see the replacement crossing as being vital for growth and for transport links.
Official Report
Meeting date:
14 March 2013
Referendum (Scotland) Bill Committee 14 March 2013
I think that the principle has young people’s backing. What do our young MSPs of the future envisage for participation?
Official Report
Meeting date:
30 January 2013
Meeting of the Parliament 30 January 2013
It is the strong message from the National Union of Students in Scotland, whose excellent fund Scotland’s future campaign has already elicited 27,000 emails to MSPs in a matter of weeks. It is also the message from business, which might support sector reform, but whose representatives told the Education and Culture Committee during our scrutiny of the budge...
Official Report
Meeting date:
19 December 2012
Local Government and Regeneration Committee 19 December 2012
I welcome the opportunity to provide the Government’s views on the High Hedges (Scotland) Bill, which is being promoted by Mark McDonald MSP. I am happy to reaffirm the Government’s support for the bill and for Mr McDonald.
Official Report
Meeting date:
27 November 2012
Education and Culture Committee 27 November 2012
A figure of 80 per cent has been mentioned with regard to pupils who have not registered, but do you have a figure for the percentage of pupils who self-referred to the careers service in the previous system, before my world of work was introduced? We plan to produce an MSP briefing on the survey results in the next week to two weeks.
Official Report
Meeting date:
26 September 2012
Finance Committee 26 September 2012
You commented earlier on something that I have supported since I became an MSP in 1999, which is a reduction in VAT on repair, maintenance and improvement to 5 per cent.
Official Report
Meeting date:
24 May 2012
Meeting of the Parliament 24 May 2012
Last autumn, Dr Peter Rice from the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland—he is in the gallery—gave a presentation to a group of MSPs. In the past 20 years, the rate of alcohol-related mortality has gone from 15 to 40 per 100,000 of the population, and the incidence of cirrhosis of the liver has climbed from 28 to 72 per 100,000 of the population.
