Former Labour MSP for Glasgow Anniesland
I welcome the opportunity to support the motion in the name of my Labour colleague Rhoda Grant. I offer her my unreserved congratulations on bringing to the Parliament a bill which, when enacted, will undoubtedly better the lot of victims of domestic abuse. Domestic abuse is a totally unacceptable and repellent form of behaviour, and she is to be commended for her hard work and commitment in...
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will encourage co-operative business participation in the UN International Year of Cooperatives 2012.
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions Co-operative Development Scotland has had with co-operative businesses regarding their participation in the UN International Year of Cooperatives 2012.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide funding to the Energy Saving Trust in 2011-12.
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it provided to the Energy Saving Trust in 2010-11.
3. To ask the Scottish Executive when it next plans to meet the chief executive of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. (S3O-13126)
The cabinet secretary will be aware of recent speculation in The Herald over the future of Glasgow homoeopathic hospital, which is located in my Glasgow Anniesland constituency. Unsurprisingly, that speculation has caused great concern and anxiety among patients past and present throughout the country who have benefited from the care that the institution offers. A number of those patients...
I urge members to support both amendments. I am particularly pleased that the Government has lodged amendment 3 to section 14. It will place stepgrandchildren and other children who were considered by someone who has died to have been their grandchildren on the same footing as grandchildren by marriage. The shameful anomaly that previously existed discriminated against children based on the...
