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I have been absolutely open with Parliament about that over time and I have answered numerous questions from Mr Brown and others on the issue. The question that we should focus on is why the Government had to embark on the non-profit distributing programme.
One can therefore understand why farmers such as Jim Brown of Gaindykehead farm near Airdrie have said: “As we have seen from DEFRA Minister Owen Paterson and the UK Government’s actions over the recent debacle of CAP convergence funding—they do not have Scottish farming’s interests at heart, and indeed are taking decisions which remove vital funding from ...
My father was a country doctor and, very fortunately, barely a day would go by without his returning with a brown paper bag full of eggs, a pat of butter, a tub of crowdie or some home-made cheese.
The next question is, that motion S3M-497, in the name of Keith Brown, on behalf of the Procedures Committee, on merging the Procedures Committee and the Standards and Public Appointments Committee, be agreed to.
If so, would members like the update to contain any additional information, such as the change that Robert Brown has suggested? Paragraph 12 of the paper says that an average of four MSPs attend each CPG meeting, which means that significantly fewer than four MSPs attend some meetings.
Every single penny of that extra £100 will be taken away by Labour’s proposals. As Gordon Brown once said, there is hardly a nurse, teacher, policeman, or council worker who will not be hit hard by an increase in the basic rate of tax.