SNP CUTS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT TRANSPORT FUNDING MUST END TO KEEP SCOTLAND MOVING
Recently released statistics have highlighted the drastic scale of the cuts to local government transport…
Jackie Baillie MSP
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SNP PRESIDES OVER DECADE OF DISINVESTMENT FOR SCOTLAND’S UNIVERSITIES
Scottish Labour analysis, based on figures provided by the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe), shows…
SCOTTISH NHS IN CRISIS AS A&E WAITING TIMES AT WORST ON RECORD AND DELAYED DISCHARGE COSTS MOUNT
Statistics published this week have shed light on the dire state of the NHS under…
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National Health Service
Scottish Parliament debates
Will the member take an intervention?
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National Health Service
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Will Stuart McMillan take an intervention?
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National Health Service
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No, I do not have time. The chair and chief executive have not bothered to hold meetings with us in more than two and a half years. It is bad enough that they ignore MSPs, but to ignore the...
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National Health Service
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As the cabinet secretary will have heard my colleagues shouting, the two are not mutually exclusive. We do need action, and I am about to call for an increase in the action that is taken. The...
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National Health Service
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It is perhaps unsurprising that I will focus on NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. It is Scotland’s largest health board, which covers the people who I represent in the Dumbarton constituency....
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Consumer Scotland Bill: Stage 1
Scottish Parliament debates
I am delighted to concede that point. The minister will also recognise that Citizens Advice Scotland enjoyed statutory underpinning until the powers were returned to the Scottish Parliament and...
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Consumer Scotland Bill: Stage 1
Scottish Parliament debates
I welcome the opportunity to speak in the stage 1 debate on the Consumer Scotland Bill. Like Andy Wightman, I was sceptical about the need for the bill when there is already a crowded and...
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Consumer Scotland Bill: Stage 1
Scottish Parliament debates
He was there.
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Scottish National Investment Bank Bill
Scottish Parliament debates
That explains why I am concerned about the continuing uncertainty. We did not hear anything to reassure us. Let me finish on a note of consensus. I am grateful for the cabinet secretary’s...
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Scottish National Investment Bank Bill
Scottish Parliament debates
It is my speech, Presiding Officer.
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Scottish National Investment Bank Bill
Scottish Parliament debates
Yes or no? He cannot reply.
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Scottish National Investment Bank Bill
Scottish Parliament debates
I am asking very specifically whether financial transaction money will come after March 2021 to fund the SNIB. Is it a yes or a no?
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Scottish National Investment Bank Bill
Scottish Parliament debates
Oh! T here we go.
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Scottish National Investment Bank Bill
Scottish Parliament debates
I support having a Scottish national investment bank. It is fair to say that it has been a long time in coming. I think that John Swinney—clearly behind Richard Leonard in doing...
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Scottish National Investment Bank Bill: Stage 3
Scottish Parliament debates
Consensus has broken out, Presiding Officer. I press amendment 38. Amendment 38 agreed to.
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Scottish National Investment Bank Bill: Stage 3
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It is the last group, and I am pleased to speak to amendment 38, in my name. We are now in a new decade, yet the gender pay gap today is still as high as 5.6 per cent. The only way that employers...
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Scottish National Investment Bank Bill: Stage 3
Scottish Parliament debates
I welcome the approach and the co-operation of the cabinet secretary. I thank Engender and Close the Gap for their work in ensuring that we have pushed the legislative envelope and can make...
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Scottish National Investment Bank Bill: Stage 3
Scottish Parliament debates
I am pleased to speak to my amendments 35 and 37. The Scottish Government recognises equality as an overarching principle, but equality was not included in the bill as introduced. Members of all...
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Scottish National Investment Bank Bill: Stage 3
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I am pleased to speak to amendment 1, in my name. The Economy, Energy and Fair Work Committee had a strong view that the bank must invest more widely than in the private sector alone. I want the...
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Scottish National Investment Bank Bill: Stage 3
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Not moved.
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