Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 17 December 2015
17 Dec 2015 · S4 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Interests of Members of the Scottish Parliament (Amendment) Bill
If I am invited out to dinner and my UHI hosts highlight the fact that lecturers in the Highlands are paid £7,000 below lecturers elsewhere in Scotland, and the following week I come into Parliament and raise the issue of unfair pay for lecturers in the Highlands, have I received a benefit in kind—that is to say, dinner—and then become a paid advocate, or have I just received information? I seek clarity on that issue, and I think that we would all welcome such clarity.
In the same item of business
The Deputy Presiding Officer (John Scott)
Con
The next item of business is a debate on S4M-15201, in the name of Stewart Stevenson, on the Interests of Members of the Scottish Parliament (Amendment) Bill...
Stewart Stevenson (Banffshire and Buchan Coast) (SNP)
SNP
There is always a benefit in reviewing, with a critical eye, the regimes that govern our work and that of individual members here in Parliament. The bill’s ...
The Minister for Parliamentary Business (Joe FitzPatrick)
SNP
I do not propose to take too much time to comment on the details of the Interests of Members of the Scottish Parliament (Amendment) Bill. It will probably c...
Mary Fee (West Scotland) (Lab)
Lab
This is a short but nevertheless important debate on the interests of members of the Scottish Parliament. Across the chamber we all agree that we need robust...
Mary Scanlon (Highlands and Islands) (Con)
Con
I associate myself with the comments made by Mary Fee. I also thank Stewart Stevenson and the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee for bri...
The Presiding Officer (Tricia Marwick)
NPA
We all need to learn from you, Mrs Scanlon.
Mary Scanlon
Con
If I am invited out to dinner and my UHI hosts highlight the fact that lecturers in the Highlands are paid £7,000 below lecturers elsewhere in Scotland, and ...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
I call Stewart Stevenson to wind up the debate. 16:11
Stewart Stevenson
SNP
Let me start with the point that Mary Scanlon has made, which is a fair and proper one, by addressing the example that she gives of any of us being out to di...
Mark McDonald (Aberdeen Donside) (SNP)
SNP
Are we all invited?
Stewart Stevenson
SNP
Invitations are now closed. Mary Fee dealt more than adequately with the subject of the sanctions that are being introduced and with the broad sanction regi...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
Thank you very much, Mr Stevenson. I do not expect an answer just now, but perhaps when the Lobbying (Scotland) Bill is debated you can tell me whether, if S...