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Ag/S3/08/11 PARLIAMENTARY BUREAU Ag/S3/08/11 PARLIAMENTARY BUREAU AGENDA FOR MEETING ON TUESDAY 25 MARCH 2008 2.00pm: Room Q1.03 1. Minutes (a) Draft minutes of 18 March 2008 (b) Matters arising 2. Future Business Programme (PB/S3/08/40) 3. Procedural motions Approval of instruments (PB/S3/08/41) Legislation 4. Creative Scotland Bill – Stage 1 completion date (PB/S3/08/42) 5. Proposed Apprenticeship Rights (Scotland) Bill: Referral of Draft Proposal (PB/S3/08/43) 6. Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee – travel outwith the UK (PB/S3/08/44) 7. Justice Committee – travel outwith the UK (PB/S3/08/44A) 8. Justice Committee – appointment of adviser (PB/S3/08/45) 9. Publication scheme – consideration of any exempt papers 10. Date of next meeting – Tuesday 15 April 2008 PB/S3/08/40 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. S3M-1611# Johann Lamont: Congratulations to the Bullwood Project—That the Parliament applauds the ambition, energy, tenacity and vision of the Bullwood Project, a self- help group based in the Pollok parliamentary constituency; notes the creativity and environmental benefits of its work and that it is working towards being a self-sustaining social enterprise; supports social enterprises which make a real difference in our communities; applauds particularly the Bullwood Project’s contribution to Scotland Week in New York in producing the largest caber in the world; congratulates the project on being invited by the Tartan Day Parade Committee to march in the parade on 5 April 2008, and believes that this caber is an imaginative way of communicating Scotland’s message of friendship and humanity to all those who will participate in the Scotland Week celebration and will see the caber as it is exhibited in the USA. Supported by: Alex Neil*, Mr Frank McAveety*, Sandra White*, Bob Doris*, Bill Kidd*, Trish Godman*, Hugh Henry*, Cathy Peattie*, Mary Mulligan*, Patricia Ferguson*, Hugh O’Donnell*, Elaine Smith*, Iain Gray*, Gil Paterson*, Marilyn Livingstone*, Jack McConnell*, Patrick Harvie* S3M-1610# Alison McInnes: Young Drivers - Reducing the Death Toll—That the Parliament notes with concern that one in three fatal road accidents in Scotland last year involved young people under the age of 25 and that three quarters of those crashes happened on rural roads; notes that this is particularly true in the Grampian region where 40% of fatalities were young drivers and so welcomes The Press and Journal’s Young Driver of the Year competition; further welcomes the competition entrants’ innovative recommendations on how the death toll on the roads could be reduced, and considers that all these recommendations should be examined in detail to see which proposals could be taken forward to improve the safety of young drivers in Scotland. Supported by: Nanette Milne, Mike Pringle, Jim Tolson, Kenneth Gibson, Elizabeth Smith, Mike Rumbles, Sandra White, Jim Hume, Bill Kidd, Brian Adam, Jamie Hepburn*, Des McNulty*, Elaine Smith*, Cathy Peattie*, Gil Paterson*, Marlyn Glen*, Bob Doris*, Trish Godman*, Hugh O’Donnell*, Robin Harper*, Claire Baker*, Hugh Henry* S3M-1596# Mary Mulligan: Yes to Bathgate Business Improvement District—That the Parliament notes the hugely successful outcome of the ballot to establish the first Business Improvement District (BID) in Scotland in Bathgate, West Lothian; further notes that out of 205 votes cast by local businesses, 190 were in support of the BID proposals and congratulates the BID steering group chairperson, Sam Crawford, his implementation group colleagues, Amanda Finlayson and Pat Kerr, and all others involved in developing the Bathgate BID on their amazing success; acknowledges that the ballot result is an overwhelming endorsement by the business community of the BID concept, and hopes other Scottish towns may follow in Bathgate’s footsteps. Supported by: John Lamont*, Patricia Ferguson*, Kenneth Gibson*, Jim Tolson*, Cathy Peattie*, Iain Gray*, Hugh Henry*, Dr Richard Simpson*, Hugh O’Donnell* S3M-1567# Hugh O’Donnell: A Call for Better Epilepsy Care—That the Parliament welcomes the forthcoming More specialist nurses, better epilepsy care campaign being run by Epilepsy Scotland for National Epilepsy Week 2008; commends the outstanding support that 1 PB/S3/08/40 Epilepsy Scotland gives to the estimated 40,000 people in Scotland with this condition; acknowledges the valuable contribution specialist epilepsy nurses make to patient-centred treatment and epilepsy management; recognises the cost savings that these nurse posts make by reducing hospital stays, decreasing consultants’ workload and uncovering misdiagnosis and overtreatment; encourages NHS Scotland to address the shortfall in posts which means access to an epilepsy specialist nurse is a postcode lottery; notes that five NHS boards are without either paediatric, adult or learning disability nurses; believes that funding should be provided for additional epilepsy specialist nurses; advises that the recommendation of the Joint Epilepsy Council of the UK and Ireland for one specialist nurse for adult, paediatric and learning disability, per 100,000 of the population be followed in Scotland; acknowledges that resources for medical and administrative support must be available for specialist nurses to allow them to work effectively; suggests that increased specialist nurse provision will contribute towards related HEAT targets for an improved healthcare experience and rates of attendance at accident and emergency departments, and believes that the requests in this motion relate directly to plans contained in the Scottish Government’s Better Health, Better Care strategy for a healthier Scotland, launched on 12 December 2007. Supported by: Christine Grahame, Jackson Carlaw, Mary Mulligan, Alex Neil, Hugh Henry, Jim Hume, Trish Godman, Alison McInnes, Mike Pringle, Robert Brown, Jackie Baillie, Liam McArthur, Ross Finnie, Robin Harper, Nanette Milne, Karen Whitefield, George Foulkes*, Elaine Smith* S3M-1539# Tricia Marwick: Leven to Thornton Rail Link—That the Parliament notes that the South-East Scotland Transport Partnership commissioned a feasibility study into the reopening of the Leven to Thornton rail link; believes that the reopening of this line to passengers and freight is vital to the regeneration of the Levenmouth area; notes that the reopening of the Leven to Thornton rail link is one of Fife Council’s top transport priorities, and believes that those most interested in the regeneration of Levenmouth should contribute to the feasibility study now being carried out. Supported by: Jamie Hepburn, Sandra White, Rob Gibson, Kenneth Gibson, Brian Adam, Robin Harper, Bill Kidd, Gil Paterson, Joe FitzPatrick, John Park, Ted Brocklebank, Claire Baker, Christopher Harvie S3M-1535# Margaret Mitchell: Medtech—That the Parliament welcomes the contribution of the medical technology (medtech) sector to Scotland which is worth around £8.7 million and accounts for around 7,000 jobs; notes that the medical devices sector has been identified as one of the six key technology areas for the following five years by the Council for Science and Technology and that the market is worth $200 billion globally; welcomes the work of Lanarkshire-based Medical Devices in Scotland (MDIS) in providing advice and support for medtech businesses with issues such as regulation, procurement, trade shows and product development, as well as facilitating research and development projects worth over £8 million; further welcomes the fact that MDIS has generated an approximate nine-fold return on an investment of £949,064 provided by Scottish Enterprise since 2001; is therefore concerned that Scottish Enterprise’s funding for MDIS is due to cease as of 31 March 2008; considers that this may lead to a weakening of the sector’s position in Scotland at a time when other UK regions and the Republic of Ireland are aggressively targeting the sector, and therefore considers that all interested parties should work together to provide a solution guaranteeing the long-term financial support that the sector requires. Supported by: Jackson Carlaw, Murdo Fraser, Mary Scanlon, Jamie McGrigor, Nanette Milne, Elizabeth Smith, John Lamont, Ted Brocklebank, Hugh O’Donnell, John Scott S3M-1529# Mary Scanlon: Elgin Bypass—That the Parliament supports the need for a bypass for the city of Elgin; recognises the efforts of Moray Council, Elgin Community Council, the Elgin Bypass Steering Group and many other individuals and groups who have campaigned for this bypass for many years; notes that 26,000 vehicles pass through Elgin on a daily basis; further notes that four successive ministers with responsibility for transport have visited Elgin since the formation of the Parliament, all of whom have been supportive of the proposal; notes that Moray is the base of many world-renowned companies that distribute 2 PB/S3/08/40 their produce globally but feel restricted in Elgin where traffic slows considerably; also notes that the Moray 2020 strategy recognised that local transport links needed to be transformed in order to enhance the area and to attract inward investment, government dispersals and growing businesses, and notes the need for bypasses for other towns along the A96 corridor. Supported by: Murdo Fraser, Nanette Milne, Elizabeth Smith, Jamie McGrigor, John Lamont, Margaret
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