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Official Report
Meeting date:
6 January 2016
Meeting of the Parliament 06 January 2016
That was astonishing in both its arrogance and its complacency. Then, on the first day of the recess, as we all went off for Christmas, he slipped out a letter to the 10 MSPs who had written to him, stating that he now wants Pitchford to be extended to look at the operations that happened in Scotland.
Official Report
Meeting date:
25 November 2015
Finance Committee 25 November 2015
No, because circumstances might change. If we get into a recession, the 1 per cent would go out of the window.
Official Report
Meeting date:
1 September 2015
Justice Committee 01 September 2015
This is our first evidence-taking session after coming back from recess, which, I should note, is not a holiday—we have been working during our break.
Official Report
Meeting date:
25 June 2014
Meeting of the Parliament 25 June 2014
Opposition members talked about figures being bandied about, but we cannot get away from the facts: this Administration has built more houses for rent through registered social landlords and councils than previous Administrations in Scotland built. Even during a recession, more private houses for sale have been built per head of population in Scotland than ...
Official Report
Meeting date:
29 April 2014
Welfare Reform Committee 29 April 2014
There is a cost of living issue because of declining real wages and coming out of the recession and because of declining benefits.
Official Report
Meeting date:
6 November 2013
Public Audit Committee 06 November 2013
Sorry—at the end of January next year; I think that the work will come to the committee after recess. There will be more information in there to allow you to investigate that issue.We are keen to see not only how the funding is mainstreamed, but how the successful examples that have been achieved through the use of that money are spread elsewhere across Sco...
Official Report
Meeting date:
6 November 2013
Meeting of the Parliament 06 November 2013
We are well aware of what happened to the property market in the wake of the global recession towards the end of 2008. We could never expect to recover the purchase price of the land when we came to sell it, given the downturn in land and property prices.
Official Report
Meeting date:
30 October 2013
Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee 30 October 2013
It is important that, notwithstanding the changing economic and financial climates, we keep discipline in how we guide our decisions.On your point about transport spending being heavily focused on roads, I have already spoken about the importance, during a recession, of maximising construction spend in order to stimulate the economy, but even when the econo...
Official Report
Meeting date:
31 May 2012
Meeting of the Parliament 31 May 2012
We feel that that approach would not have been correct—especially in a recession, when the imposition of additional costs is not justifiable and would likely have caused considerable outcry, on the basis that the money might be used for better purposes, such as the creation of more employment.We think that the voluntary approach is correct, and I inform Par...
Official Report
Meeting date:
5 October 2011
Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee 05 October 2011
Those of us who still think that Keynes has something to say would agree with the value of capital investment per se; it is certainly a better approach to spending public money than is supporting yet more consumption of overseas goods, which is what successive UK Governments have tried to do over the past few years in response to the recession. Is the switc...
