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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.
Meeting of the Parliament (Glasgow) Motion moved, That the Parliament agrees to meet in the former Strathclyde Regional Council debating chamber in Glasgow in May 2000 on dates to be confirmed in the Business Bulletin.
The development of that situation has a long history. We have established a nurse bank for the whole of Lanarkshire and, within the next month, a senior member of staff who will have overall responsibility for that will be appointed.
Reports that a ceremony is definitely going to take place on a certain date in March are simply untrue. It may well be that such a date is pencilled in on documents at the Holyrood site, because people must work to targets.