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First, for the bill to be effective for the next academic year, we need to get royal assent by February. Secondly, the agreement reached with the teaching profession and the local authorities was the subject of widespread consultation last year and the arrangements for assistant head teachers were part of that agreement.
The bill is trying to use subordinate legislation to get round that, but I would have thought that it would be quite serious if primary legislation was struck down.
Members' business is becoming an opportunity to raise awareness of conditions that affect thousands of people and somehow get lost in the grand scheme of things.
It strikes me that either we have a timetabling motion that is followed by the Presiding Officer to the letter or we have no such motion. We must not get into an in-between situation.We are a new Parliament, setting off down the road of democracy.
Parliament might still be meeting in Glasgow when we find out the wording of the amendment, in which case we will try to get as many members of the committee together as possible.Item 5 will be taken in private.
Members who think that the only way to find alternatives is to get rid of poindings and warrant sales support paragraph 2; paragraph 3 only reflects the alternative view.