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Ag/S4/12/33 Parliamentary Bureau Agenda for Meeting AG/S4/12/33 PARLIAMENTARY BUREAU AGENDA FOR MEETING ON TUESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2012 9.00 am: Room Q1.03 Minutes 1. (a) Draft minutes of 20 November 2012 (attached) (b) Matters arising 2. Future business programme (PB/S4/12/255) 3. Removal of motions (PB/S4/12/256) 4. Legislation (a) Legislative Consent Memorandum - Marine Navigation (PB/S4/12/257) (No. 2) Bill (b) Public Bodies Act Consent Memorandum – Public (PB/S4/12/258) Bodies (Abolition of British Shipbuilders) Order [2013] 5. Bills from reports of the Scottish Law Commission (PB/S4/12/259) 6. Publication scheme – consideration of any exempt papers 7. Date of next meeting – Tuesday 4 December 2012 PB/S4/12/255 PARLIAMENTARY BUREAU POSSIBLE MOTIONS FOR MEMBERS’ BUSINESS 1. Bureau Members will be aware that under Rule 5.6.1(c) the Bureau has a duty to ensure that there is a period of time available for Members’ Business following Decision Time. 2. Motions submitted for Members’ Business are shown below. S4M-02899# Christine Grahame: A Scottish Media Panel—That the Parliament would welcome a panel of experts to provide advice to ministers on Scotland’s media industry to help identify a strategy and direction, to help enable stability and growth and ensure that there is no democratic deficit in reporting on the Parliament and politics at what it considers this most important time of social and political change in the Scottish Borders, Midlothian and elsewhere in Scotland; while acknowledging that this is a time of financial restraint, believes that funding such a panel would have longer-term benefits for both the industry and democracy, and understands that such a proposal is currently under consideration by the Welsh Assembly Government. S4M-03469# Elaine Murray: Congratulations to Nith Inshore Rescue—That the Parliament congratulates Nith Inshore Rescue (NIR) on receiving the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, presented by the Lord-Lieutenant for Dumfries, Jean Tulloch, on 22 June 2012; notes that NIR is an independent lifeboat based at Glencaple and that the crew of unpaid volunteers is on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, every day of the year and has saved or rescued over 100 people since NIR was formed 32 years ago; applauds the support that it receives from the community, and wishes NIR many more years of saving lives and preventing water-based accidents. S4M-03561# Jamie McGrigor: The Pathway to the Isles—That the Parliament welcomes the results of a study by Scottish Natural Heritage into a new ―pathway to the isles‖ from Tyndrum to Oban; congratulates the instigators for what it considers their inspirational idea, which the report suggests could bring in tourism income of around £1 million per annum to the villages along the way, with a possible extra 32,000 visitors; notes, in light of what is seen as an upsurge in interest in pilgrim routes across Europe, that the route was previously a pilgrim’s path to Iona and might now pass through the villages of Dalmally, Lochawe, Taynuilt and Connel before reaching Oban, known as the gateway to the isles, and would link in with the West Highland Way and the Oban to Fort William cycle route; believes that this route would pass through some of Scotland’s most stunning mountain and loch scenery, including Ben Cruachan and Loch Awe; further believes that local residents and businesses would give a very warm welcome to extra visitors to the area attracted by the path, and hopes that the proposals will be taken forward and will boost tourism and raise the profile of one of the most scenic parts of Scotland. S4M-03620# Bob Doris: Saving Lives in Glasgow and Beyond—That the Parliament acknowledges calls from the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Scotland and the Scottish Ambulance Service to save more lives in Scotland by increasing the availability of defibrillators and the provision of emergency life support training in schools; notes that in some parts of Scotland the survival rate for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests can be as low as 1 in 100; is aware that for every minute that passes after a cardiac arrest without defibrillation, the chances of survival decrease by about 10% and that publicly sited defibrillators with simple instructions have already meant the difference between life and death for many people, including at least one person in Glasgow in the last year; believes that defibrillators should be easily accessible in as many public places as possible; applauds the efforts of those public bodies and commercial organisations that have taken a lead on this and, in particular, Glasgow Life and Strathclyde Passenger Transport; would welcome widespread 1 PB/S4/12/255 uptake of the BHF-subsidised defibrillator and free training initiative; congratulates all those who participated in the BHF Scotland Saving Lives in Glasgow appeal, which raised over £100,000 to fund these life-saving machines, and looks forward to many more lives being saved. S4M-03713# Christine Grahame: Centrica Profits an Obscenity—That the Parliament notes that British Gas Residential, which is owned by Centrica and includes Scottish Gas customers, has made £1.9 million profit per day in the most recent reporting period, fuelled in part by what the Parliament considers are inflammatory price hikes to consumers whose bills now average £1,260 per annum, £200 higher than two years ago and considers this to be obscene profiteering at a time when all household budgets are under stress, particularly those of vulnerable people, older people and young families in Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale and the rest of the country. S4M-03715# Christine Grahame: Bill and Ted @ Black Diamond—That the Parliament congratulates 89-year-old Bill Prentice and 87-year-old Ted Comerford, believed to be the oldest broadcasters in Scotland with their weekly show on Sunday from 5-6pm on Black Diamond, Midlothian’s community radio, broadcasting from Newtongrange on 107.8FM; notes that their show, devised by them, has been running as long as Black Diamond, five years, and can be heard from Arbroath to Edinburgh and across the Borders, and commends them for demonstrating that just because you are octogenarians does not mean that you spend your days in carpet slippers, sipping tea. S4M-03740# Rhoda Grant: Recognising John McEwen, an Advocate of Land Reform— That the Parliament recognises the 20th anniversary of the death of John McEwen who, it understands, was a lifelong forester, socialist and advocate of radical land reform; considers that the people of the Highlands and Islands and across Scotland owe him a debt of gratitude for what it considers was his painstaking work in cataloguing land ownership in his book, Who Owns Scotland?; believes that this work exposed inequity in land ownership patterns and helped foster debate about land reform; acknowledges the early work of the Parliament in passing what it considers to have been important legislation that encouraged changes in land ownership patterns and removed feudal rights; notes with pleasure the use of this legislation by many communities and what it considers are the many benefits that community ownership brings; considers these to be welcome and important developments but believes that the fundamental inequity of land ownership has changed little since John McEwen’s work was published, and believes that, in order to permit a wider and greater stake for the people in the ownership of land and in pursuit of the changes and economic and social advances that were advocated by John McEwen and, it believes, are still needed, it would be a fitting tribute to his memory if the debate about the future of the country embraced more widely what it considers to be the need for further land reform measures. S4M-03859*#* Claudia Beamish: Bee Aware of National Honey Bee Day— That the Parliament notes that 18 August 2012 was National Honey Bee Day; notes that this day aims to promote and advance beekeeping, educate the public about honey bees and beekeeping and make the public aware of the environmental concerns affecting honey bees; further notes that there were events across the UK, including at the Falls of Clyde, where visitors were given the opportunity to learn about the honey bee, find out about beekeeping, taste honey and see bees gathering nectar for their hive; recognises that honey bees are an essential agent of pollination for a range of plants that are in turn important parts of the eco-system; notes the recent research by the Scottish Wildlife Trust, which estimated that honey bees are worth £43 million a year to the Scottish economy by pollinating crops such as strawberries and raspberries, and *would welcome* the planting of bee-friendly fauna such as lavender, bugle, coneflower and hebe, which, it understands, are more attractive to bees. S4M-03904# Elaine Murray: A Warm Welcome to Wildlife at Crichton Royal Dairy Research Farm—That the Parliament congratulates the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) on signing a memorandum of agreement (MoA) at the Crichton Royal Dairy Research Farm in Dumfriesshire on 2 August 2012 that sets out how the organisations will aim to work together to increase wildlife on the 2 PB/S4/12/255 research farm; understands that the signing of the MoA formalises and strengthens a partnership between the two organisations that has been ongoing for 10 years; notes that the purpose of the partnership is to develop and demonstrate simple and cost-effective methods of increasing biodiversity without impacting on the profitability of the farm and that their work, which has involved participation by schools, has resulted in increasing numbers of birds on the farm; congratulates SAC and RSPB on what it considers has been their successful partnership to date, and believes that the results of this work can make a valuable contribution to shaping the successor to the Scottish Rural Development Programme when the common agricultural policy is expected to be reformed in 2013.
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