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I may not use it all and so I wonder whether I might prevail on you, Sir David, to bank any unused time for me to use in any back-bench speeches that I make in the near future.
Items in Private Under agenda item 2, the committee will consider whether to take in private agenda item 5—consideration of the evidence that has been received to date in our rural development inquiry—and whether to consider our draft report on the inquiry in private at future meetings until we have concluded it.
In response to Tavish Scott's assertion that, according to some Royal Bank of Scotland league tables, we are improving, I say that Scotland comes 11th out of 12 UK regions in the Royal Bank of Scotland's purchasing managers report.
I agree with Phil Gallie and think that we should keep a close eye on the matter. The date for ending tobacco subsidies has been given as 2010, but I know from the past seven years' experience that when we get nearer to such dates we always do some deal and renegotiate to extend the date by another five years.
Let us hope that we get two debates; that would be good. Has a provisional date been set yet? No; the debate will probably be in February, but we do not have a provisional date as such.
We do not yet have a date for that session. I propose that, on 8 November, we consider a paper from the clerks and Hamish Long, our adviser, which will flag up a number of outstanding issues.
If we can find better ways of funding such things, that is all to the good.We need to campaign about the many wrong things that are done by multinationals, the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation.