Meeting of the Parliament 10 December 2014
Mr Macdonald will have to forgive me; I will give way to him in my closing speech.
That was such a seminal comment—Gordon Brown came along and said, “You won’t have to wait until March 2016; we’ll deliver these powers even earlier.” What are we now finding that the United Kingdom Government and certainly the Conservative Party are saying? I hope to hear from the Labour Party a reaffirmation of what Margaret Curran said in her letter to the Secretary of State of Scotland. We should be getting on with the job of implementing the powers as soon as we possibly can, and the Scottish Government will press the UK Government to deliver exactly that.
I move amendment S4M-11830.2, to leave out from “agrees” to end and insert:
“welcomes the agreement of all five parties to devolve further powers to the Parliament; calls on both governments to produce draft clauses for the recommendations jointly to maintain this agreement; looks for early action from both governments on implementation where possible and especially to allow the Parliament to extend the vote to 16 and 17-year-olds for the 2016 Scottish election; welcomes the contribution of stakeholders and the public to the work of the commission, and recognises the need for continuing meaningful public consultation and engagement to ensure the credibility of the process in Scotland.”
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