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To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether it accepts that use of the Edinburgh Accommodation Allowance to pay for interest-only mortgages for MSPs enables those MSPs to personally profit from future sale of the properties purchased on the basis of such mortgages.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 December 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what the party political status is of all councillors and MSPs serving on Social Inclusion Partnerships, broken down by local authority.
The best debating point on that subject was made by Colin Fox. He said that 30 MSPs get free prescriptions. However, his bill would mean that 129 MSPs would get free prescriptions—100 beneficiaries, none of whom is poor.
The act was also useful in the request that I made to Lanarkshire NHS Board, the answer to which showed that there is definitely a two-tier system in relation to representation for list MSPs and constituency MSPs, with public bodies such as health boards discriminating against list MSPs.
It is interesting to note that we have heard not a single word in the debate about the disabled. As MSPs, we featherbed ourselves. If an MSP is, or becomes, disabled, support is provided for as long as that MSP is a member of the Parliament.