Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 10 December 2025
10 Dec 2025 · S6 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Business Motions
Given all the activity that I have noted and the fact that there is already a parliamentary process covering the topic, the request for a debate, certainly ahead of that concluding, is unnecessary. However, I take Patrick Harvie’s point. It is, of course, open to the member who raised the issue—and, indeed, to Mr Harvie—to pick it up with his business manager, for the matter to be discussed at the Parliamentary Bureau. That is how the bureau and this Parliament work.
I say gently to Douglas Lumsden that talking of MSPs “sloping off” on a Thursday afternoon is a bit rich considering the barren nature of his party’s benches pretty much every Thursday.
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The Presiding Officer (Alison Johnstone)
NPA
The next item of business is consideration of business motion S6M-20101, in the name of Graeme Dey, on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, on a change to bus...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
The next item of business is consideration of business motion S6M-20068, in the name of Graeme Dey, on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, setting out a busi...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
I call Douglas Lumsden to speak to and move amendment S6M-20068.1. 17:22
Douglas Lumsden (North East Scotland) (Con)
Con
There is a spare slot next Thursday, so, instead of MSPs sloping off early— Members: Oh!
Douglas Lumsden
Con
—let us make the most of the little time that we have left in the current session of Parliament—Interruption.
The Presiding Officer
NPA
Let us hear one another, colleagues.
Douglas Lumsden
Con
Let us make the most of the little time we have left in the session and have a debate on the Scottish National Party Government’s energy strategy. When we c...
Douglas Lumsden
Con
All of those will have to be clawed back in our bills. Will he be scrapping carbon levies that are adding to our bills and making our manufacturing industry ...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
Let us hear Mr Lumsden.
Douglas Lumsden
Con
Using the time next week for debate would give the SNP Government the chance to come clean on its fantasy claims and answer those questions. The debate could...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
Let us hear the member.
Douglas Lumsden
Con
It stinks, Presiding Officer. It is clear that, when it comes to approving large-scale energy infrastructure projects, Gillian Martin gets to be the judge, j...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
I call Graeme Dey to respond on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau. 17:27
The Minister for Parliamentary Business and Veterans (Graeme Dey)
SNP
Although the member is entitled to raise the matter by this means, it is disappointing, to say the least, that his suggestion for debate has not been raised ...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
Let us hear one another.
Graeme Dey
SNP
On the substance of his ask, the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy recently sent a letter to the Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Com...
Patrick Harvie (Glasgow) (Green)
Green
Although I agree that lodging an amendment of this kind without taking it through the business bureau is clearly performative and has been done as a wheeze r...
Tim Eagle (Highlands and Islands) (Con)
Con
On a point of order, Presiding Officer. I seek your guidance. My understanding is that the time is allocated so that any member can lodge a change to the bus...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
Members can raise issues that they wish to have debated at this point, but the content of members’ contributions is generally a matter for them. The chair wi...
Patrick Harvie
Green
Having made that comment, I would like the Minister for Parliamentary Business and Veterans and his Government colleagues to be aware that others—not those w...
Graeme Dey
SNP
Given all the activity that I have noted and the fact that there is already a parliamentary process covering the topic, the request for a debate, certainly a...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
The question is that, amendment S6M-20068.1, in the name of Douglas Lumsden, which seeks to amend motion S6M-20068, in the name of Graeme Dey, on behalf of t...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
There will be a division. There will be a short suspension to allow members to access digital voting. 17:31 Meeting suspended. 17:33 On resuming—
The Presiding Officer
NPA
We come to the vote on amendment S6M-20068.1, in the name of Douglas Lumsden, which seeks to amend motion S6M-20068, in the name of Graeme Dey. Members shoul...
Tess White (North East Scotland) (Con)
Con
On a point of order, Presiding Officer. My app would not work. I would have voted yes.
The Presiding Officer
NPA
Thank you, Ms White. We will ensure that that is recorded. For Balfour, Jeremy (Lothian) (Ind) Briggs, Miles (Lothian) (Con) Burnett, Alexander (Aberdeen...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
The result of the division on amendment S6M-20068.1, in the name of Douglas Lumsden, is: For 34, Against 89, Abstentions 0. Amendment disagreed to.
The Presiding Officer
NPA
The next question is, that motion S6M-20068, in the name of Graeme Dey, on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, setting out a business programme, be agreed to...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
The next item of business is consideration of business motion S6M-20069, in the name of Graeme Dey, on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, on timetabling of ...