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Andrew Welsh: SNP Chamber
08 Oct 2009
SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE · Alcohol Awareness
Is the minister aware of reports from Sweden this week that show that restrictions on the price and availability of alcohol there have reduced alcohol consumption by as much as 30 per cent, which contrasts with Finland, where one year of lower alcohol taxation has increased ho...
Mr Andrew Welsh (Angus) (SNP): SNP Chamber
20 Feb 2003
Arbroath CAFE Project
My purposes in initiating this debate on the Arbroath CAFE project are to praise its achievements and to encourage others to see the potential that is offered by this innovative and exciting community project. I welcome members and leaders of the Arbroath CAFE project who are ...
Mr Andrew Welsh (Angus) (SNP): SNP Chamber
21 Dec 2006
Knife Violence
The purpose of my all-party motion on respect your life, not a knife is to highlight the co-operation between the Damilola Taylor Trust and the Angus community alcohol-free environment project in raising awareness of knife crime and encouraging active participation in schools ...
The Convener: SNP Committee
15 Dec 2009
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
Item 5 is to determine our approach to scrutiny of the financial memorandum to the Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill. The paper from the clerk suggests that we might wish to adopt level 3 scrutiny and that we seek written evidence from all local authorities, the business organisatio...
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
The next item is evidence on the financial memorandum to the Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill. Our first panel of witnesses is from trade bodies. I welcome to the committee Gavin Hewitt, chief executive of the Scotch Whisky Association; Campbell Evans, director of government and co...
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
Our second panel of witnesses is from the Scottish Government bill team. I welcome to the committee Gary Cox, the head of the licensing team; Alison Douglas, the head of alcohol policy; Marjorie Marshall, the economic adviser for the public health and sport team; and Alison Fe...
The Convener: SNP Committee
18 Feb 2003
“Dealing with offending by young people”
We hear about young people being helped to prepare for when their sentence is over, but although we hear about preparation for many things, we never hear about preparation for leisure. I have in mind Arbroath's CAFE—Community Alcohol Free Environment—project, which helps peopl...
Andrew Welsh (Angus) (SNP): SNP Committee
22 Apr 2009
Section 23 Report
We can see the problem all too clearly, but the key question is what cure will work. I notice that you find:"There is variation across Scotland in the range and accessibility of drug and alcohol services. The Scottish Government has not set out minimum standards in terms of ra...
Mr Welsh: SNP Chamber
09 Nov 2006
SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE · Voluntary Sector Funding
Is the minister aware of the Community Alcohol Free Environment—CAFE—project that is based in Arbroath, and its pioneering street football for all programme, which positively encourages teaching, fair rules, participation and decision making and which is inclusive towards all ...
Mr Welsh: SNP Chamber
16 Nov 2006
First Minister's Question Time · Knife Crime
Is the First Minister aware that this month marks the sixth anniversary of the death of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor and that the Damilola Taylor Trust is launching a campaign, with Home Office sponsorship, to encourage young people to respect life and reject knives?The Angus c...
Andrew Welsh (Angus) (SNP): SNP Chamber
25 Feb 2009
Community Policing
I congratulate the Justice Committee on its report on community policing and the evidence that it gathered from throughout Scotland. The idea of community policing has at its heart the wish to encourage local action to meet local needs, and to regenerate identity and renew a s...
1. Andrew Welsh (Angus) (SNP): SNP Chamber
08 Oct 2009
SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE · Alcohol Awareness
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to promote alcohol awareness week. (S3O-8114)
The Convener: SNP Committee
15 Dec 2009
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
Does that have the committee's agreement?
The Convener: SNP Committee
15 Dec 2009
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
With that addition, are members content with the arrangements as set out in the paper?
The Convener: SNP Committee
15 Dec 2009
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
We think that that could be done.
The Convener: SNP Committee
15 Dec 2009
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
You are hitting the microphone with your papers.
The Convener: SNP Committee
15 Dec 2009
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
I am assured that we will be taking evidence on that and you will be able to pose that question to the appropriate Government minister. You can pursue that issue.
The Convener: SNP Committee
15 Dec 2009
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
I suggest that we write to the minister in charge of the bill, seeking clarification.
The Convener: SNP Committee
15 Dec 2009
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
We are seeking clarification. We can still write to the minister, pointing out the matter that Derek Brownlee has just raised.
The Convener: SNP Committee
15 Dec 2009
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
Yes, we can do that, and we will await a response. With those alterations, which the clerks have noted, are the arrangements as set out in the paper before us agreed?
The Convener: SNP Committee
02 Feb 2010
Decision on Taking Business in Private
The next meeting of the committee will take place on 9 February, when we will continue to consider the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Bill at stage 2 and take evidence on the financial memorandum of the Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
It would be helpful if you could write to us on that matter.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
Yes, I would like to move on.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
Scotch whisky predominates in the Scottish psyche, but I offer Mr Drummond from the Scottish Grocers Federation a chance to intervene.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
Before I call Derek Brownlee, I will allow Linda Fabiani to ask a very quick question.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
Be very, very quick.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
Perhaps you could confirm that to us in writing—that would be helpful.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
No.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
I offer Mr Drummond the opportunity to intervene.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
Mr Drummond, you are outnumbered two to one, but now is your chance.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
I remind the committee that we have a second panel to come. I will allow Malcolm Chisholm in if he is very quick.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
Be very quick.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
If you can confirm the exact cost, please do.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
I will leave the final word to our witnesses. Do you wish to make any final comments?
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
I thank our witnesses for sharing their expertise and giving practical evidence that will help the committee in its deliberations.There will be a short suspension to allow the witnesses to change over.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
You are going into complex modelling. If you wish to supplement your answers in writing, please do so.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
We look forward to receiving that.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
Derek Brownlee was next to ask a question, but does Malcolm Chisholm want to ask a quick question first?
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
You are on the list.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
If the witnesses want to consult further and write to us, that would be helpful.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
Who would wish to answer that one?
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
I remind the committee that we are receiving evidence from officials. Some of the questions would be better posed to the minister.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
I think that we are straying into other committees' work. Do you have a final question, Mr Macdonald?
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
We have had quite a long session. Linda Fabiani has a final, very quick question.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
I apologise. Malcolm Chisholm will ask a question.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
Again, I apologise to Malcolm Chisholm.Linda Fabiani and Jeremy Purvis have promised that they will each ask one short question. Shall we put that to the test, Linda?
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
If the witnesses think that the questions they have been trying to answer have been complicated, I must tell them that what I have to do is even worse.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
It would be helpful if the witnesses considered that further and wrote to us. We will let you have the detail—it was a detailed question. If you do not have the answer now, it would be good if you could write to us.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
Do you wish to answer, or—
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
These are very detailed questions.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
This is a question of great detail, which could perhaps be followed through. I am sure that the clerks will make contact to ensure that Mr Purvis can get an answer to his question.Mr Purvis having failed the single-question test, I turn to Linda Fabiani.
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum
I draw this section to a conclusion; I see that the witnesses wish to make no final comments. The committee has sought information on a complicated pattern of variables and unknowns, and we appreciate the inbuilt difficulties in the nature of your work. I thank you for your ev...
The Convener: SNP Committee
09 Feb 2010
Decision on Taking Business in Private
Item 3 is consideration of whether to take our draft report on the financial memorandum to the Alcohol etc (Scotland) Bill in private at future meetings. I propose that we do so. Are members agreed?
Andrew Welsh (Angus) (SNP) SNP Chamber
09 Mar 2011
“Report on preventative spending”
This will be one of the last speeches that I will make as an MSP, and it is my final scheduled contribution as convener of the Parliament’s Finance Committee. Therefore, I welcome the fact that I will address a topic—preventative spending—that has the potential to deliver long...
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Chamber

Plenary, 08 Oct 2009

08 Oct 2009 · S3 · Plenary
Item of business
SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE
Alcohol Awareness
General Questions
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Is the minister aware of reports from Sweden this week that show that restrictions on the price and availability of alcohol there have reduced alcohol consumption by as much as 30 per cent, which contrasts with Finland, where one year of lower alcohol taxation has increased hospital admissions by 10 per cent? In alcohol awareness week, does the minister agree that a minimum pricing policy, as a means of saving lives and of reducing alcohol-based hospital admissions, the incidence of crime and lost working days, is increasingly supported by the evidence base?

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1. Andrew Welsh (Angus) (SNP): SNP
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to promote alcohol awareness week. (S3O-8114)
The Minister for Public Health and Sport (Shona Robison): SNP
Alcohol awareness week is a key initiative from the Scottish Government's alcohol industry partnership, which brings together Government, industry, health pr...
Andrew Welsh: SNP
Is the minister aware of reports from Sweden this week that show that restrictions on the price and availability of alcohol there have reduced alcohol consum...
Shona Robison: SNP
Yes, I am very much aware of the Swedish evidence, which is very interesting. It follows on from the in-depth report from the University of Sheffield, which ...
Jim Tolson (Dunfermline West) (LD): LD
Is the minister aware that, as part of alcohol awareness week, many members were asked to take part and to visit stores in their constituency? I visited a Da...
Shona Robison: SNP
All those things can be considered under the alcohol bill that the Scottish Government is introducing before the end of the year. As I have always said, and ...
Dave Thompson (Highlands and Islands) (SNP): SNP
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Shona Robison: SNP
I know that Beechwood does a lot of very important work, and it will of course continue to provide rehabilitation services under the contract with the counci...
Dr Richard Simpson (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab): Lab
I thank the minister for her replies so far and, although I welcome the fact that the Government has now published the Scottish end of the University of Shef...
Shona Robison: SNP
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