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To ask the Scottish Executive why the renewal date for applications for Organic Maintenance Payments in 2005 was set at 31 March and what information regarding this closing date it provided to those farmers whose renewal dates were later than 31 March 2005.
When, for example, it is asking whether the licensee is abiding by the opening hours, the board must make allowance for holidays, sickness, bereavements and other normal business factors before calling any breach of the operating plan.I move amendment 173.
I am sure that we can consider alternative meeting dates, although they will be quite difficult—I will ask the clerk whether it is essential that everybody be present.
If we lose that day, we will be unable to introduce a bill into Parliament in the required time scale and that would render useless all our work to date. Convener, you will have my support and the support of the SNP on that matter.
But the reality is that, historically, a vast amount of our legislation has commenced on an appointed date, rather than just when it receives royal assent.
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.