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Mark Griffin Lab Committee
31 Jan 2017
Transplantation (Authorisation of Removal of Organs etc) (Scotland) Bill
I launched my proposal on 19 December, along with the statement of reasons. I knew that the Government was carrying out a consultation. I hope and believe that the Government will develop legislation on opt-out; it will have my full support in that. I hope that the Government...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
19 Dec 2017
Social Security (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
The past week has been a momentous one for the Parliament, as we begin to exercise powers devolved under the Scotland Act 2016. Labour has concerns about the bill; nonetheless, I am pleased to confirm that we will support its general principles. As members have said, we owe p...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Committee
07 Dec 2015
Education (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
I believe that we need to put looked-after children at the heart of the attainment gap challenge. We are seeking to provide an equal footing for Scotland’s kids in care within the new focus on children from poorer backgrounds. Amendment 104A would mean that local authorities w...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Committee
29 May 2025
Housing (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Colleagues, I hope that you will bear with me as I go through the fairly lengthy and technical list of amendments in this group. I do not need to quote the Competition and Markets Authority’s conclusion that there was a “significant consumer detriment” in the private manageme...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
24 Mar 2026
Visitor Levy (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill
Given that, as the minister says, this is a short technical bill, I will keep my remarks relatively brief, in the hope that any brevity on my part will allow more flexibility to members who might be making their final speech in the Parliament.I thank the organisations and indi...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
08 Nov 2017
Child Poverty (Scotland) Bill
I congratulate the cabinet secretary and her officials, members of the Social Security Committee and its clerks and all the outside organisations that have put in so much to take the legislation from the bill that was introduced to the one that we have in front of us. Unlike J...
Mark Griffin Lab Committee
01 Mar 2018
Social Security (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Amendment 211, in my name, is simply a probing amendment, which I will not press. Its purpose was to start a debate on the issue. In some respects, it returns the debate on the bill to where stage 1 deliberations began, with a focus on the ability of future Governments to erod...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
07 Sep 2021
Programme for Government 2021-22
I draw members’ attention to my entry in the register of members’ interests, which shows that I own a rented property in North Lanarkshire. Today, we learned that research by Shelter Scotland put the cost to councils of housing those who have been made homeless due to evictio...
Mark Griffin Lab Chamber
19 Feb 2026
Visitor Levy (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I thank the minister for confirming that, and I look forward to supporting that amendment at stage 2.We need a visitor levy that works for local communities while allowing Scotland’s world-class tourism industry to thrive. On that basis, we will support the bill. However, we m...
Mark Griffin Lab Committee
10 Feb 2026
Building Safety Levy (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Yes. We agreed the legal definition in the Housing (Scotland) Act 2025, which was recently passed by Parliament, so the amendment relies on existing legislation.My concern about the impact on the housing market and how we work through the housing emergency could be alleviated ...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Committee
17 Mar 2015
British Sign Language (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Thank you for giving me another chance to give evidence to the committee. I have been following the evidence-taking sessions and the fantastic Facebook group that has been set up. The massive quantity of evidence that has been submitted has been really encouraging. The reaso...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
29 Oct 2015
Education (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate and I welcome the bill. As the saying goes, the first step towards fixing a problem is recognising that there is one. I congratulate the cabinet secretary, eight years into Government, on speaking honestly about the attainm...
Mark Griffin Lab Committee
07 Dec 2015
Education (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
We believe that the bill should give parents a guarantee that primary school pupils will receive at least 25 hours of teaching time every week. Parents who send their children to primary school should be confident that they will get at least 25 hours of teaching time each week...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Committee
02 Mar 2017
Social Security Legislation
I want to ask a couple of questions about the balance between primary and secondary legislation. The minister and the Government are doing a lot of work on setting up a new system—you are talking about the human rights-based approach, the charter, entitlement assessment, the l...
Mark Griffin Lab Committee
08 Feb 2018
Social Security (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Amendment 79 allows us to have a debate about how we use the powers to tackle disability poverty. Of households living in poverty, 42 per cent have at least one disabled person. I know that we have debated how disability benefits are not income replacement benefits, but they o...
Mark Griffin Lab Committee
08 Feb 2018
Social Security (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
We have said from the beginning that we support the principle that the power to create new benefits should be in the bill, but we share Ben Macpherson’s concerns. We would expect that any new benefit proposed by the Government or an individual member through a private member’s...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
23 Jun 2021
Coronavirus (Extension and Expiry) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
I draw members’ attention to my entry in the register of interests, which shows that I am an owner of a rental property in North Lanarkshire. In the stage 1 debate yesterday, I highlighted guidance issued by the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to adequate housi...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
12 Jan 2023
Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022
I draw members’ attention to my entry in the register of members’ interests, as I am the owner of a private rented property in the North Lanarkshire Council area. In November, the minister reiterated that the freeze legislation is temporary and can be extended only for two fu...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Committee
28 Feb 2023
Subordinate Legislation
I declare an interest as the owner of a private rented property in the North Lanarkshire Council area. Good morning, minister. You touched on some of my areas of questioning in your opening statement and your answers to the convener’s questions, but will you expand on the Gov...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
14 May 2024
Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Bill
I thank the members of the bill team and the minister for making themselves available to my Labour colleagues and me during the passage of the bill. I also thank the committee clerks and fellow members for their work in drafting the stage 1 report on the bill. I appreciate the...
Mark Griffin Lab Chamber
26 Nov 2025
Non-Domestic Rates (Liability for Unoccupied Properties) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I do have concerns about the legal issues. However, as the Presiding Officer said, all legislation that is passed in this place will ultimately face the scrutiny of the courts. What I am more concerned about is the Scottish taxpayer having to foot a £350 million bill for a mis...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
30 Sep 2025
Housing (Scotland) Bill
There are—absolutely—positive things in the bill, but let us be clear that it is a housing bill that will not build a single house. It will not bring a single new home into circulation, it will not bring immediate reductions in rent and it will not give local authorities the r...
Mark Griffin Lab Chamber
24 Mar 2026
Visitor Levy (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill
I appreciate that that has an impact on those who travel. However, I have faith that councils will take humane decisions. What we are doing today is devolving power. We are not taking a national approach; we are giving the job to councillors and entrusting them to run schemes ...
Mark Griffin Lab Chamber
19 Aug 2014
Disabled Persons’ Parking Badges (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
My understanding is that private operators would need to come to some sort of agreement with local authorities or the police to enforce the provisions in a private area and that the proposals apply only to public car parking spaces. The bill is designed to strengthen some of ...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
17 Sep 2015
British Sign Language (Scotland) Bill
It is with great pleasure that I open today’s debate. The bill was introduced to Parliament on 29 October 2014 and concluded stage 1 with a parliamentary debate on 5 May 2015. The Education and Culture Committee considered the bill at stage 2 on 2 June and today the Parliament...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Committee
06 Oct 2015
Higher Education Governance (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I support the general principles of the bill, but ONS reclassification is quickly becoming the key issue. Given the fear on the part of panel members around the financial implications of ONS reclassification, are any of you comfortable about legislation coming in in a situatio...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
12 Jan 2016
Education
I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate, which has shown that there is a growing cross-party consensus on tackling the attainment gap. As the saying goes, the first step towards fixing a problem is recognising that there is a problem. I commend the cabinet secre...
Mark Griffin Lab Chamber
02 Feb 2016
Education (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
A strong legislative framework is needed to secure faster progress in closing the attainment gap in every part of Scotland. We particularly believe that an ambitious goal is needed to help to close the socioeconomic attainment gap in children’s literacy. We want a clear approa...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
08 Dec 2016
Disability Delivery Plan
I thank the Presiding Officer and the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body for their good offices in again making the Parliament an exemplar in the provision of access to people who are deaf and who use British Sign Language. In that respect, we are carrying on the good work ...
Mark Griffin Lab Committee
31 Jan 2017
Transplantation (Authorisation of Removal of Organs etc) (Scotland) Bill
The process for a member’s bill is that a member takes the view that legislation is needed to change a situation and goes out to consultation to seek the public’s view on whether a particular mechanism or avenue is appropriate. However, at the end of the day, the member in cha...
Mark Griffin Lab Committee
31 Jan 2017
Transplantation (Authorisation of Removal of Organs etc) (Scotland) Bill
Within the year following the election, the Government has pulled together a consultation document and started the consultation process. It has taken the time to get that right, as is appropriate. I hope that it will take the time to get things right throughout the process and...
Mark Griffin Lab Committee
02 Mar 2017
Social Security Legislation
Okay—I am reassured. I hope that use of affirmative procedure will be specified. I see the point about use of secondary legislation making it clearer for applicants to look at eligibility. You say that there will be regular consolidation to make sure that people do not have t...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Committee
07 Sep 2017
Social Security (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Brian Hurton spoke about the group’s views on whether the rules about new benefits should be in primary or secondary legislation. Your submission says: “We thought that there were pros and cons to this but that we trust that the Government will do the right thing.” You might...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Committee
02 Nov 2017
Social Security (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I apologise for arriving late. I would like to go back to the balance between primary and secondary legislation and the detail of the calls made by some organisations. I do not envy the task of the minister and her officials in getting the balance right—it is not an easy job....
Mark Griffin Lab Committee
08 Feb 2018
Social Security (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
I feel that amendments 116 and 117 would advance the Scottish Government’s objectives of ensuring that Scotland’s social security system is world leading and of taking a human rights based approach to social security. The Scottish Government’s response to the Social Security ...
Mark Griffin Lab Committee
01 Mar 2018
Social Security (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
As I said, amendment 211 is simply a probing amendment. It is not an amendment that I intend to press; I simply want to have a debate on whether we have the right balance between primary and secondary legislation and whether, in advance of stage 3, we can agree that any effort...
Mark Griffin Lab Chamber
25 Apr 2018
Social Security (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
First, I congratulate the Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance and the third sector for getting the right to advocacy into the bill. In the context of social security across the UK, they should be proud that, because of their work, there will now be a right to advocacy in le...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
25 Apr 2018
Social Security (Scotland) Bill
I thank the clerks, my committee colleagues, the minister and her officials, the third sector and civic society for getting this important legislation to where it is today. It is fair to say that, when it was lodged, the bill did not quite live up to the hype. If it was not f...
Mark Griffin Lab Chamber
31 May 2018
Housing (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
I am pleased that today’s debate has given confirmation—if any were needed—that the Housing (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill will be passed and that social and co-operative housing will be protected. We have spoken again about the importance of, and ownership of, housing, and I am ...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
27 Jun 2018
Prescription (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
We welcome the bill. The new discoverability test, which requires a person to be aware that their loss, injury or damage was caused by a person’s act or omission and to know that person’s identity before the five-year period starts, is fairer than the current law. The bill se...
Mark Griffin Lab Committee
28 Feb 2019
Subordinate Legislation
As I indicated in my questions, this is such a momentous stage in the devolution of social security entitlement that the uprating method that will be used deserves wider discussion, wider consultation and wider debate before we make the decision. Members will know that, whe...
Mark Griffin Lab Chamber
21 May 2019
Portfolio Question Time · European Union Law (No-regression Principle)
I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer. The Government supports a new legal duty on Scottish ministers to have regard to the four EU environmental principles in developing policies and legislation. I am not sure whether I picked it up correctly, but having regard to the...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
16 Mar 2021
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
We will be supporting all the amendments in this group. Amendment 40 in my name is sponsored by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland and deafscotland, as well as Together. I am grateful for the discussions that we have had with the Government and to have the support o...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
24 Jun 2021
Coronavirus (Extension and Expiry) (Scotland) Bill
I draw members’ attention to my entry in the register of interests as an owner of a rental property in North Lanarkshire. For those of us who have been involved in the various stages of this legislation, it has been a fairly hectic week that has highlighted why emergency legi...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
07 Oct 2021
Carer’s Allowance Supplement (Scotland) Bill
As one of the co-conveners of the cross-party group on carers and a former member of the Social Security Committee, I am grateful to speak in this debate, because carers deserve this additional payment. Being an unpaid carer is a 24-hour job, which is done out of love, not fo...
Mark Griffin Lab Committee
04 Nov 2021
Proposed Scottish Employment Injuries Advisory Council Bill
The minister has set out that he intends to introduce legislation to establish employment injury assistance. That is obviously something that the Government has to do as a result of the Scotland Act 2016 and the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018. What the minister has not me...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
21 Dec 2021
Rented Housing Sector
I draw members’ attention to my entry in the register of members’ interests, as I am the owner of a rented property in North Lanarkshire. Scottish Labour welcomes the publication of the draft rented sector strategy consultation—which has arrived, finally, at the end of the ye...
Mark Griffin Lab Chamber
21 Dec 2021
Rented Housing Sector
We certainly do not expect the legislation to come into force in year 2 of this parliamentary session, but we would look for the details of the framework for the rules, and data for the broad system that we expect to be implemented, to be in the forthcoming housing bill. Let ...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
02 Feb 2022
Prevention of Homelessness Duties
I draw members’ attention to my entry in the register of members’ interests, which shows that I am the owner of a rental property in North Lanarkshire. We welcome the debate and are pleased to see that the consultation is under way. We support measures to intervene at an earl...
Mark Griffin Lab Chamber
02 Feb 2022
Prevention of Homelessness Duties
It is good to have that reassurance, and I am sure that Shelter will be reassured, too. I look forward to debating the detail of the proposed legislation when it is introduced. In its briefing, Crisis points out that we need to be diligent with the legislation, ensure that it...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
09 Jun 2022
Scottish Local Government Elections (Candidacy Rights of Foreign Nationals) Bill: Stage 3
As my colleague Neil Bibby confirmed, we will support the bill, and we are keen to extend candidacy rights to nationals of any country with which the UK signs a treaty for mutual candidacy rights at local elections who have any type of leave to remain. Local decisions are cle...
Mark Griffin Lab Committee
09 Jun 2022
Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Amendments 109 and 110 seek to improve the information, evaluation and reporting of the operation and effect of the provisions in part 4 and their precursors, which is substantially lacking at the moment. It is clear to anyone with an interest in the private rented sector tha...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
21 Jun 2022
Non-Domestic Rates (Coronavirus) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
Scottish Labour will support the bill at decision time, as we did at stages 1 and 2. As we also did at previous stages of the bill’s journey through Parliament, we echo the concern of the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee and a number of stakeholders about the ...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
07 Sep 2022
Programme for Government (Cost of Living)
I hope that, in her closing speech, the cabinet secretary will say when the rent freeze legislation will be published and outline the legislative timeline. As of this morning, it had not been published and it does not feature in the proposed business for next week that we will...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
04 Oct 2022
Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I draw members’ attention to my entry in the register of members’ interests, which shows that I am the owner of a rental property in the North Lanarkshire Council area. Labour will be supporting the emergency legislation this week. We want to see the rent freeze and moratoriu...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab Chamber
06 Oct 2022
Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Bill
I indicate at the outset that Labour will support the bill at decision time, and I thank the minister for his collegiate work on our amendments on what has been a very short and pressured timescale. I also recognise the work of the minister’s team. I also want to thank my own...
Mark Griffin Lab Committee
15 Nov 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Because of the way in which the legislation has been drafted, witnesses at a number of our evidence sessions have said that they have not been able to go into great detail about what the impacts of the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill will be. I know that the minister has...
Mark Griffin Lab Chamber
02 Feb 2023
Budget (Scotland) (No 2) Bill: Stage 1
Absolutely. The Government asks us to come to the table and have an honest discussion about where we would spend additional funding and where we would cut, but, until we have the transparency of an honest starting point, that is impossible for anyone in the Labour Party withou...
Mark Griffin Lab Committee
07 Dec 2023
Scottish Employment Injuries Advisory Council Bill: Stage 1
The committee will see that a lot of the legislation has been drafted as a mirror image of the legislation that created SCOSS. A lot of the membership criteria are the same—off the top of my head, I think that those are in section 97 of the bill that set up SCOSS. There is a m...
Mark Griffin Lab Committee
07 Dec 2023
Scottish Employment Injuries Advisory Council Bill: Stage 1
It is key that the council is set up through primary legislation that this Parliament passes, because that will protect its status. Even if the council makes a recommendation that a Government of whatever colour strongly disagrees with, it will not be at risk of being disbande...
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Health and Sport Committee 31 January 2017

31 Jan 2017 · S5 · Health and Sport Committee
Item of business
Transplantation (Authorisation of Removal of Organs etc) (Scotland) Bill
Griffin, Mark Lab Central Scotland Watch on SPTV
I launched my proposal on 19 December, along with the statement of reasons. I knew that the Government was carrying out a consultation. I hope and believe that the Government will develop legislation on opt-out; it will have my full support in that. I hope that the Government does not decide, after conducting its consultation, not to proceed with legislation. I am going through this process so that if the Government decides that it is not right to develop such legislation, I will be in a position to pick up the ball and move forward with my proposal. In the previous session, I introduced the British Sign Language (Scotland) Bill in my first year after being elected. It took four years from its being introduced to its being passed and becoming legislation. If the Government were to decide not to progress with opt-out legislation, and I were to start afresh with a member’s bill more than a year into the parliamentary session, there might be difficulty in respect of time and its being passed in this session. That is why I decided to run my proposal in tandem. If, when the Government’s consultation concludes, it decides to bring forward its own legislation, that will be fantastic and it will have my full support. I will give the Government the time to come to its own conclusion. However, if it decides not to proceed with legislation, I will, because I have run the process for my proposal in tandem, be ready to take it forward.

In the same item of business

The Convener Lab
The second item on the agenda is an evidence session on the proposed transplantation (authorisation of removal of organs etc) (Scotland) bill. We will hear f...
Mark Griffin (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab
Good morning, everyone, and thank you very much for having me along to the committee. You have in front of you my proposal for a members’ bill on a soft opt-...
Alex Cole-Hamilton LD
Thank you very much indeed for your presentation. None of us can fail to have been moved by your personal reasons for proposing the bill. You rightly point o...
Mark Griffin Lab
Anne McTaggart’s consultation had almost 600 responses, and the committee’s consultation had almost 900 individual responses to its survey. Responses came ba...
Alex Cole-Hamilton LD
Exactly.
Mark Griffin Lab
I think that another consultation would be counter-productive.
Alex Cole-Hamilton LD
I am certainly of one mind with you on that. You rightly point out—in particular, in respect of the moving case of your father—how important time is in this ...
Colin Smyth Lab
Good morning. You mentioned three consultations—two that have already been conducted and one that is being done by the Government. Are there any organisation...
Mark Griffin Lab
No. There have been three extensive consultations. By virtue of this being a member’s bill, if I carry out a consultation it would be with just the resources...
Richard Lyle SNP
I know your personal reasons behind all this; I was a good friend of your dad’s, as you know, and went through the pain that your family went through at the ...
Mark Griffin Lab
I launched my proposal on 19 December, along with the statement of reasons. I knew that the Government was carrying out a consultation. I hope and believe t...
Richard Lyle SNP
I say with the greatest respect to members of the committee now, that I was on the Health and Sport Committee last session, and we basically went through thi...
Mark Griffin Lab
In the previous session, the Government made a commitment to go out to consultation, which is what it has done. I am not aware that it made a commitment to l...
Richard Lyle SNP
Thank you, and sorry for putting you through that.
Alex Cole-Hamilton LD
On that point, irrespective of whether the Government made a commitment to consult or to legislate, I fully endorse Mark Griffin’s position that his proposed...
Clare Haughey SNP
Thank you for coming along today, Mark, and thank you for explaining why you are doing this now, which was going to be one of my questions. You say that ther...
Mark Griffin Lab
Anne McTaggart carried out a consultation, and the previous Health and Sport Committee carried out its own consultation.
Clare Haughey SNP
From what I understand, the Health and Sport Committee carried out a self-selecting online survey of about 900 people. From the information that I have, that...
Mark Griffin Lab
Yes.
Clare Haughey SNP
They included 529 individuals and 30 organisations. From my reading of the consultation, the organisations, which included church organisations, professional...
Mark Griffin Lab
My proposal is the same as Anne McTaggart’s, so I would be going out to consultation on the same proposal to the same people and would, in all likelihood, ge...
Clare Haughey SNP
I cannot quite follow the logic in asking the same questions as resulted in a flawed bill. Would you consider exploring other areas? Since 2015, there have b...
Mark Griffin Lab
I have made a one-line proposal. Its being the same as Anne McTaggart’s proposal does not mean that the bill that would be introduced would be the same as he...
Clare Haughey SNP
Okay. I apologise. I thought that you said that the information would be the same. We need to ensure that a bill on the matter that is placed before Parliame...
Alison Johnstone Green
For clarification, if the committee voted against your proposal not to consult, we would ask you to carry out a further consultation. There seems to be some ...
Mark Griffin Lab
That is correct. Technically, if the committee does not agree with me, I would have two months to go out to consultation and go through the normal member’s b...
Alison Johnstone Green
There would probably be some repetition and duplication in that, and it is clear that progress would be delayed. I am concerned that the Minister for Public ...
Mark Griffin Lab
Yes. There is certainly no guarantee with the Government consultation. However, I guarantee that I will introduce a bill at some point if the Government does...
Tom Arthur (Renfrewshire South) (SNP) SNP
Thank you very much for coming to the meeting. I think that we all sympathise with you and commend your aims in bringing forward your proposal. For the recor...
Mark Griffin Lab
Yes—I guarantee that 100 per cent. The Government consultation is due to end in March. I expect that it will be a month or two after that when it publishes r...