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Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

26 Sep 2006

Subordinate Legislation

I have no difficulty at all with the proposals, but I have a general question. As the minister is here, I will draw upon his knowledge. I am curious about why the draft order has come before us now, as there must have been earlier stages in the devolution process at which simi...

Susan Deacon (Edinburgh East and Musselburgh) (Lab): Lab Committee

02 Sep 2003

Subordinate Legislation

I will comment briefly. I echo Christine May's comment that the issue is not just academic. I support the proposal, which has substantive reasons for being important. In a former life, I was involved in a debate about naming a significant part of a significant higher education...

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

30 Nov 2004

Subordinate Legislation

I am supportive of the principle of the introduction of charging and can see why it is being done for the purposes of managing the area, but I am interested in a few aspects of how charging will operate in practice. Can you tell us something of how it is to be monitored and en...

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

30 Nov 2004

Subordinate Legislation

What is Historic Scotland's role in terms of the enforcement of parking charges? All of us are used to the local authority procedures to which I referred earlier.

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

30 Nov 2004

Subordinate Legislation

I raised the question because of the importance of the issue. All of us can think of places such as hospitals and universities where, if the parking arrangements are barrier controlled or have a formal enforcement mechanism, people quickly test whether the system has real teet...

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

30 Nov 2004

Subordinate Legislation

My final question concerns permits. Who qualifies for a permit?

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

30 Nov 2004

Subordinate Legislation

I assume that Historic Scotland would take those decisions in practice. The regulations say that a parking permit is "a permit issued by the Scottish Ministers".For the avoidance of doubt, can you confirm that ministers cannot hand out permits to people whom they want to be ni...

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

30 Nov 2004

Subordinate Legislation

So, in practical terms, Historic Scotland would exercise its discretion in that regard.

Susan Deacon (Edinburgh East and Musselburgh) (Lab): Lab Committee

14 Mar 2006

Subordinate Legislation

I seek information on the discussions about the proposals. Many members are aware that the NUS and individual students associations have raised issues and concerns about the matter—the Edinburgh University Students Association has been in touch with me. What representations ha...

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

14 Mar 2006

Subordinate Legislation

My points will chime with Christine May's comments. We should seek from the minister information on and assurances about the evidence base and we should highlight specific points and statistical information that have emerged this afternoon.From my recollection of the committee...

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

14 Mar 2006

Subordinate Legislation

Putting to one side the substantive matter that is before us, I want specifically to address the issue of timescales. Fiona Hyslop used the word "rush". Members of the committee will know that we have been debating these matters in considerable detail for a number of years. It...

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

14 Mar 2006

Subordinate Legislation

I made a point about on-going liaison with the United Kingdom Government.

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

14 Mar 2006

Subordinate Legislation

I ask for clarification. The convener touched on this matter at the beginning of the meeting, so I apologise if I blinked and missed it. You mentioned that the NUS was the only organisation to say that it wished to give oral evidence to us, but I think that I am right in sayin...

Susan Deacon (Edinburgh East and Musselburgh) (Lab): Lab Committee

21 Mar 2006

Subordinate Legislation

I am not sure whether this comes within the bounds of a technical question either, although it is still to do with process. The word "consultation" is widely used in this place and has been widely used in the various representations that we have heard today and in the papers b...

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

21 Mar 2006

Subordinate Legislation

I worded my question such that it could be seen to constitute a technical question. In essence, I am interested in hearing more about who gave the advice that helped to shape the Executive's final decision.

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

21 Mar 2006

Subordinate Legislation

Actually, no. To be fair, the kind of dialogue that I am asking about can take many different forms apart from what we would recognise as a formal consultation process.

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

21 Mar 2006

Subordinate Legislation

The minister made the point that we have Executive Government in Scotland. It is often important to remember that. Let me clarify what I mean. It is clear to me that ministers have spent a considerable time thinking about how to square the circle and deal with a complex mix of...

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

02 May 2006

Subordinate Legislation

I am conscious of the fact that many of the wider issues have already been subject to considerable debate in the committee, in the full Parliament and through consultation. Therefore, I will confine my question to a practical point of detail concerning the implementation date ...

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

02 May 2006

Subordinate Legislation

In simple terms, are you saying that the Executive can convey an instruction—in whatever shape or form that would take—to the institutions fairly quickly and that the institutions have the machinery in place to implement and communicate the revised arrangements?

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

02 May 2006

Subordinate Legislation

Both.

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

02 May 2006

Subordinate Legislation

I do not think that it is fair to make assumptions about people falling down on party lines. We have been through this matter repeatedly, but I am assured by some of what I heard in response to my question about the amount of work that has been done on a week-to-week basis, wh...

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

02 May 2006

Subordinate Legislation

We have the Official Report for that purpose. That is the device that is normally used in these circumstances to make ministers and the wider Parliament aware of our views.

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

05 Sep 2006

Subordinate Legislation

This is not a question for the panel, but one about the procedural issue that you have highlighted. The covering note raised a question in my mind about why we are in this situation. Instinctively, I feel that we ought to be able to look at such matters in the round. Is there ...

Susan Deacon (Edinburgh East and Musselburgh) (Lab): Lab Committee

22 Mar 2007

Subordinate Legislation

Thank you.

Susan Deacon (The Minister for Health and Community Care): Lab Committee

16 May 2000

Subordinate Legislation

Thank you. Is there a limit on how long I may speak?

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

16 May 2000

Subordinate Legislation

I am grateful to have the opportunity to address this important issue. I appreciate the comments that you made, convener, about the Official Report; in the absence of that information, it has been difficult to get a sense of committee members' concerns. For that reason, it has...

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

16 May 2000

Subordinate Legislation

I will deal first with the procedural issues that have been raised. Some are beyond my jurisdiction and that of the committee. If there are questions about wider parliamentary procedure, that is legitimate—we are dealing with a number of firsts—but all I can say is that in the...

The Minister for Health and Community Care (Susan Deacon): Lab Committee

08 Nov 2000

Subordinate Legislation

Good morning.

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

08 Nov 2000

Subordinate Legislation

Yes.

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

08 Nov 2000

Subordinate Legislation

As you said, convener, similar SSIs have been debated previously. I intend, therefore, simply to move the three motions that are before the committee this morning.

Susan Deacon: Lab Committee

19 Nov 2002

Consultative Steering Group Report

Ken Macintosh asked whether we had heard evidence about the current subordinate legislation procedure. It is important that we should continue to think of proposals, suggestions or solutions to problems or issues that have been mentioned to us in evidence. It is incumbent on u...

The Minister for Health and Community Care (Susan Deacon): Lab Chamber

09 Dec 1999

Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

It gives me great pleasure to close this debate on behalf of the Executive, and to welcome warmly and enthusiastically the new politics that has broken out across the chamber. I am struck by the extent to which I agree with almost every word that Phil Gallie uttered. I am worr...