There are 10,913 results relating to "recess"
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Official Report
Meeting date:
12 November 2015
Meeting of the Parliament 12 November 2015
As Cara Hilton has said, Christmas is just around the corner but, although we will enjoy our recess period, many shopworkers across the UK will be required to work.
Official Report
Meeting date:
9 June 2015
Welfare Reform Committee 09 June 2015
However, I am determined not to pre-empt the consultation that we are going to launch before the summer recess. It would be wrong of me to do so, because we want to listen to what people are saying before we start to comment on whether one option is better than another.
Official Report
Meeting date:
14 January 2014
Health and Sport Committee 14 January 2014
Given the tight timescale on the issue, which emerged just before the Christmas recess, we needed to act quickly to respond to the UK Government’s position.
Official Report
Meeting date:
31 October 2013
European and External Relations Committee 31 October 2013
The committee will be aware that a senior French delegation was in the Parliament just before recess. That visit was about an incoming investment opportunity.
Official Report
Meeting date:
19 September 2013
European and External Relations Committee 19 September 2013
That approach contrasts with the risks that are being created by the UK Government’s on-going threat to exit the EU.I understand that the committee heard before recess from David Lidington, on the UK Government’s approach to the EU.
Official Report
Meeting date:
11 September 2013
Meeting of the Parliament 11 September 2013
Almost £2 billion of projects are in procurement and more than £500 million of those projects are expected to begin construction this financial year—they are the Ayrshire College project, the M8, M73 and M74 project bundle and a range of schools and community health projects.The effects of the recession are still being felt in the housing market, and the Go...
Official Report
Meeting date:
9 February 2012
Meeting of the Parliament 09 February 2012
I put on record the fantastic work that co-ops do in Scotland and throughout the United Kingdom. In an economic recession, co-operative businesses are a particularly important way in which to secure local economic development and to secure profits for people to share out locally, whether that is in the local community or among the workers who run the compan...
Official Report
Meeting date:
28 June 2011
European and External Relations Committee 28 June 2011
Jim Mather was the minister who was previously responsible for European funding streams, and Alex Neil is the new cabinet secretary who will progress those issues, so the committee might want to take that up with them.We should be doing it anyway, but in straitened times it is even more important that we maximise the funds that we get from Europe and how and when we get them—for example, we can look at whether we can double up funding.In my previous role as Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning I was very keen to influence European funding, particularly to help young people who might be at risk of unemployment. Just as we were entering the recession...
Official Report
Meeting date:
24 February 2015
Meeting of the Parliament 24 February 2015
It is a great pity that Labour members have forgotten the lessons of their political forefathers, who built their way out of the looming post-war recession, for they understood that we cannot cut our way out of recession if our goals are long-term competitiveness, long-term increases in productivity and long-term pro...
Official Report
Meeting date:
4 September 2012
Meeting of the Parliament 04 September 2012
It still faces major challenges, but it has not had the double-dip recession this year that we have had, with the possibility of a triple-dip recession.
