JACKIE BAILLIE MSP SECURES FIRST MINISTER’S COMMITMENT TO PROTECT DEMENTIA WARDS
Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton Constituency, has secured a commitment from Nicola Sturgeon and the…
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JACKIE BAILLIE ANNOUNCES 2020 CHRISTMAS CARD COMPETITION WINNER
Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton Constituency, has named Lydia Murray from Parklands School as winner…
CHILD MENTAL HEALTH WAITING TIMES “INTOLERABLE” – LENNON
Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton Constituency, has said that there has been a clear and…
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Parliamentary Bureau Motions
Scottish Parliament debates
Will the cabinet secretary acknowledge that the tone date in Scotland is different from the tone date in Wales and the rest of the United Kingdom?
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Business Support
Scottish Parliament debates
Let me get right to the nub of the debate. The Scottish Government has received £8.2 billion in Barnett consequentials since the start of the pandemic, and according to the Scottish...
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Scottish National Investment Bank
Scottish Parliament debates
The predecessor to the Scottish National Investment Bank was the Scottish Investment Bank, which sat within Scottish Enterprise. I understand that it remains part of Scottish Enterprise. When...
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Food Banks
Scottish Parliament debates
I am sure that the cabinet secretary will want to join me in praising the work of the Helensburgh and Lomond Foodbank, the Roseneath peninsula food bank, West Dunbartonshire Community Foodshare,...
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Food Banks
Scottish Parliament debates
3. To ask the Scottish Government what support it provides to food banks. (S5O-04803)
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Covid-19
Scottish Parliament debates
In July 2020, the First Minister said that Scotland did not have a problem with Covid deaths in care homes. Deaths from care homes are not included in the daily figures. About two weeks ago, the...
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Covid-19 Local Protection Levels (West Dunbartonshire)
Scottish Parliament debates
West Dunbartonshire was raised to tier 4 last Friday, despite a 35 per cent decrease in the number of positive cases in the preceding week. In the week before 20 November, the drop was a...
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Legal Advice (Publication)
Scottish Parliament debates
The fundamental difference that John Swinney fails to mention is that we never faced, and lost, a vote in the Parliament and were never in a situation in which the Government withheld legal...
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Legal Advice (Publication)
Scottish Parliament debates
Now we know. We know from today’s speeches, from the briefings to the SNP group and from the reports to their meetings by John Swinney that the Scottish Government has no intention of...
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Legal Advice (Publication)
Scottish Parliament debates
I would be happy to share that. It is available on the website. However, I say to the cabinet secretary that he has had not just the time that the committee has been meeting. He has had 20 months...
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Legal Advice (Publication)
Scottish Parliament debates
It is tempting to make the same speech that I made the last time we debated this issue, because in the past three weeks, absolutely nothing has changed—not one single thing. The cabinet...
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Covid-19
Scottish Parliament debates
I welcome the extension of testing to care-at-home workers and to family care givers and the additional testing capacity to allow for 65,000 tests a day by the end of the year. I understand that...
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Veterans and Armed Forces Community
Scottish Parliament debates
I thank the Scottish veterans commissioner for all his work, as I thank the minister, too. Perhaps it is a career-ending moment to be praised by Mike Rumbles, by Michelle Ballantyne and now even...
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Pre-release Access to Official Statistics (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Scottish Parliament debates
The convener started by reading out a list. I will do likewise to make the point that all the experts agree. The minister said that we should follow the advice, so why does he not do that? The...
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Decision Time
Scottish Parliament debates
On a point of order, Presiding Officer. I should point out that there was a flurry of activity at the back of the chamber between the Scottish National Party whip and the minister. I think that...
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Test and Protect (Contact Tracing Performance)
Scottish Parliament debates
With all due respect to the cabinet secretary, I tell her that I have never knowingly quoted the baroness; rather, constituents have contacted me to tell me that they have been advised by text...
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Test and Protect (Contact Tracing Performance)
Scottish Parliament debates
The errors in the contact tracing data that The Sun newspaper revealed are truly staggering and undermine public confidence in the system. Contact tracing is performing five times worse than the...
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Test and Protect (Contact Tracing Performance)
Scottish Parliament debates
To ask the Scottish Government when it was informed that errors had been made in the publicly reported contact tracing performance of test and protect.
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Covid-19 Support (Tourism and Hospitality)
Scottish Parliament debates
The hospitality and tourism industry is on its knees. As Richard Leonard said, we have had lockdown and travel restrictions, then eat out to help out, localised restrictions, confusion over what...
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Covid-19 Support (Tourism and Hospitality)
Scottish Parliament debates
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