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I was pleased to hear a broadcaster refer to the committee collectively as "senior, influential MSPs"—the broadcaster meant senior in professional terms, not in age.
A moratorium was mooted. Some aspiring SNP MSPs were even moved to demand local referenda on wind farm developments—another creative way, presumably, of managing the planning process.
r=11360&c=2064035Alison Johnstone MSP (who had brought forward the amendment) agreed that the bill allows regulations to vary the amount of carer's assistance.
Audit Scotland needs to step up to the plate. The past work of MSPs has identified the potentially damaging and unaffordable cost of unequal pay and its financially destabilising effect.
We are talking about an extremely serious issue. I am sure that many of the MSPs present are aware of the criminality, benefit fraud and gangsterism that rogue landlords are involved in.
As a businessman in a previous life, as a back-bench MSP and now as a minister, I have found on many occasions that the statistics that are gathered in the census are invaluable.The value of the census is of course dependent on every household completing the census questionnaire.
I welcome our first panel of witnesses, who are Kenny MacAskill MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Justice; and, from the criminal law and licensing division of the Scottish Government, Philip Lamont, head of branch, and Jim Wilson, policy officer.
I, too, have encountered that in my work as an MSP over the past decade. Like David McLetchie, I was particularly struck by Anne McLaughlin's contribution, in what I gather was her maiden speech.Anne McLaughlin indicated disagreement.
There is scope for expansion in those areas and such a move would do more to tackle child poverty.It is clear from this morning's evidence and indeed previous evidence that pupils higher than P3 who have been identified as living in poverty will be reached neither by the P1 to P3 policy nor by the extension of eligibility to the children of parents on maximum working families tax credit.As a Mid Scotland and Fife MSP...