Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 05 June 2024
05 Jun 2024 · S6 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Business Motions
It is the case that I received a request from the Conservative Party to schedule a ministerial statement on EU structural funds for this week. I wrote to business managers to explain that I had intended to schedule the statement as requested but given that a topical question on EU structural funds had been selected and was asked yesterday, I felt that it was no longer required. After writing that letter to all business managers, I received no response from the Conservative Party business manager to my note, nor did he particularly push for the statement when it was discussed in the bureau. Otherwise, we could have discussed the request in more detail.
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The Presiding Officer (Alison Johnstone)
NPA
The next item of business is consideration of business motion S6M-13493, in the name of Jamie Hepburn, on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, setting out a b...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
I call Liz Smith to speak to and move amendment S6M-13493.1. 17:42
Liz Smith (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con)
Con
It is my understanding that, prior to the Presiding Officer’s selection of my topical question yesterday, the Minister for Parliamentary Business had intende...
The Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Gaelic (Kate Forbes)
SNP
Does Liz Smith accept that the programme still has at least a year to run? If all the money had been spent by now, that would be somewhat dubious, considerin...
Liz Smith
Con
I have spent quite a lot of this morning reading up on the EU rules on this, and I understand what is being asked for, but I remind the Deputy First Minister...
Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab)
Lab
I rise in support of the appeal to change the business motion for the following key reasons. The first is the quantum of the sums involved. We are talking ab...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
I call the minister to respond on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau. 17:46
The Minister for Parliamentary Business (Jamie Hepburn)
SNP
It is the case that I received a request from the Conservative Party to schedule a ministerial statement on EU structural funds for this week. I wrote to bus...
Martin Whitfield (South Scotland) (Lab)
Lab
Is it not the case that, following the topical question, it would appear from the contributions from either side of the chamber that further questions have a...
Jamie Hepburn
SNP
There are many mechanisms and means by which members can do that. I note that Mr Johnson said that the topical question was not enough. I am unaware of wheth...
Daniel Johnson
Lab
Does the minister accept that sometimes the facts change? When the facts change, so should his position. Does he not accept that, given that further question...
Jamie Hepburn
SNP
The fact is that Mr Johnson did not bother to press his button yesterday to seek to ask a question. In the short period in which I have held the office that ...
Alexander Burnett (Aberdeenshire West) (Con)
Con
I say for the record, because the minutes of the bureau do not go into the detail that would allow what was said to be reflected, that I did say that we woul...
Jamie Hepburn
SNP
I am making the point—I make it again—that I am a reasonable person. If we had had a fuller discussion, we could have considered scheduling the statement. Pa...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
The question is, that amendment S6M-13493.1, in the name of Liz Smith, which seeks to amend motion S6M-13493, in the name of Jamie Hepburn, on behalf of the ...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
There will be a division. There will be a short suspension to allow members to access the digital voting system. 17:50 Meeting suspended. 17:52 On resuming—
The Presiding Officer
NPA
We come to the vote on amendment S6M-13493.1, in the name of Liz Smith. Members should cast their vote now. For Baillie, Jackie (Dumbarton) (Lab) Baker, C...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
The result of the division on amendment S6M-13493.1, in the name of Liz Smith, is: For 55, Against 56, Abstentions 0. Amendment disagreed to.
The Presiding Officer
NPA
The next question is, that motion S6M-13493, in the name of Jamie Hepburn, on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, setting out a business programme, be agreed...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
The next item of business is consideration of business motion S6M-13494, in the name of Jamie Hepburn, on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, on a stage 1 ex...