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Scottish Parliament: Scottish Guardianship Service (10th Anniversary) ( 4 Nov 2020)

John Finnie: Like my colleagues, I thank Angela Constance for the opportunity to discuss this important issue tonight. I congratulate her and the Scottish guardianship service, Aberlour and the Scottish Refugee Council on the service’s 10th anniversary. As we all know, the service’s cause of helping others in supporting young children in a foreign land is something special. We know from those...

Scottish Parliament: Kent Access Permit Scheme ( 7 Oct 2020)

John Finnie: 5. To ask the Scottish Government what impact it expects on Scotland’s rural economy and Scottish producers’ ability to export their goods of the proposed Kent access permit scheme. (S5O-04661)

Scottish Parliament: Kent Access Permit Scheme ( 7 Oct 2020)

John Finnie: The minister will be aware of the UK Cabinet Office scenario of 7,000 lorries held for up to two days, and delays. That is completely unacceptable for high-value, perishable goods such as seafood and live fish. Can the minister rigorously pursue clarity on the outcome of that consultation with what I readily accept is a non-co-operative UK Government and examine opportunities for the Scottish...

Scottish Parliament: Draft Infrastructure Investment Plan 2021-22 to 2025-26 (24 Sep 2020)

John Finnie: Events at the Rest and Be Thankful illustrate the impact of the climate breakdown that we are facing. The cabinet secretary will be aware that bridges feature in a number of options for a replacement route there. However, at the moment, they are road-only designs. Some excellent work is being done by the Cowal fixed-link working group on a road and rail option that would not only solve the...

Scottish Parliament: Minority Ethnic People and Communities (22 Sep 2020)

John Finnie: [ Inaudible .]—on both amendments at decision time. The motion mentions the independent expert reference group on Covid-19 and ethnicity. It is rightly considered that “its recommendations will be invaluable”. That being the case, I would hope that the Scottish Government will give a clear rationale for not progressing any recommendations, were that to be the case. Of course, that is...

Scottish Parliament: Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill ( 9 Sep 2020)

John Finnie: I will talk about the specifics of the amendment in my name, such as the “piecemeal” nature of “ the development of hate crime law”, which has resulted in “fragmented legislation”. It is a simple matter of fact that, for more than a decade, there have been calls for consolidation. The principle of consolidation seems to be widely welcomed and has benefits, as we have seen with...

Scottish Parliament: Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill ( 9 Sep 2020)

John Finnie: I am grateful to the member for the intervention. I will come on to that, and I will cover the competing arguments on the issue. As far as we are concerned, there is unfinished work on misogynistic harassment. Toxic masculinity must be addressed, and we look forward to that work progressing. As the amendment says, we commit to listening to “all serious views on ways to improve” the bill....

Scottish Parliament: Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill ( 9 Sep 2020)

John Finnie: Does the member accept that Lord Bracadale, who has put a lot of work into this, said in his report that “extending the stirring up offences in Scotland would not infringe the article 10 right to freedom of expression”?

Scottish Parliament: Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 (26 Aug 2020)

John Finnie: I am surprised about the disagreement that there seems to be about this. The cabinet secretary is entirely right when he says that this is an enabling piece of legislation. However, if we look specifically at what is being asked, it most certainly does not cut across anything, as Willie Rennie suggests. In fact, it is quite the reverse—it complements much of what has gone before. The...

Scottish Parliament: Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 (26 Aug 2020)

John Finnie: I do not think that that is accurate. There is so much flexibility in the amendment, for example where it talks about “facilitating ... supply chains” or “delivering flourishing rural communities”. The latter is the cabinet secretary’s entire raison d’etre, presumably, so there is no issue over delivering any of those things. The important thing is that there are many things to be...

Scottish Parliament: Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 (26 Aug 2020)

John Finnie: The amendment says: “The objectives are to ensure that agricultural activity contributes to ... encouraging innovation, productivity, profitability and resilience in agriculture”. How does that square with what the cabinet secretary has just said?

Scottish Parliament: Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 (26 Aug 2020)

John Finnie: Will the cabinet secretary take an intervention?

Scottish Parliament: Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 (26 Aug 2020)

John Finnie: I am grateful to the cabinet secretary for taking an intervention. Mr Mundell covered the point that I wanted to make, which was about diversification. Lots of words are not in amendment 21; the important thing is that the cabinet secretary cannot take offence at the words that are in it.

Scottish Parliament: Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 (26 Aug 2020)

John Finnie: We will support the cabinet secretary’s amendments 17 and 18 and Mr Mundell’s amendments 3, 9 and 13. Mr Mundell gave the rationale as to why we will not support Willie Rennie’s amendments 2, 8 and 12: it should not be for ministers to decide the procedure by which scrutiny takes place. I have heard Mr Stevenson eloquently lay out his views on secondary legislation before, and I will...

Scottish Parliament: Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 (26 Aug 2020)

John Finnie: I did not approach the member to tell him that I was not going to support the amendment and would be encouraging my colleagues not to support it, because that has been our position for some time. The language from the proposer, such as “siphoning off”, is a concern. Mr Mundell talked about being open to the potential of doing things differently as we need flexibility, but I do not know...

Scottish Parliament: Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 (26 Aug 2020)

John Finnie: It is welcome that we have that comment from Peter Chapman about payments on the record. We need flexibility, but we also need to recognise that there are opportunities to scrutinise policies and legislation as they come through. The amendment would just create more paperwork and there is no need for it. If we do our jobs, we will be following the money anyway, so we will not support the...

Scottish Parliament: Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 (26 Aug 2020)

John Finnie: I have found myself today in the unusual position of sharing the same voting intentions as Mr Mundell. I commended him in the debate on the very first amendment this afternoon—amendment 21, on the objectives of secondary legislation—when he was very happy to see workers’ rights respected. Sadly, that is not replicated in his interests when it comes to amendment 19. In the debate on Mr...

Scottish Parliament: Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 (26 Aug 2020)

John Finnie: The cabinet secretary describes this as a technical amendment that is standard practice. Let us be quite clear about what proposed new subsection (1) says. It says that “Nothing in or under this Act makes the Crown criminally liable.” The reality is that any individual or body that acts in a criminal way should face the consequences. If this amendment were to pass, the Crown will join 18...

Scottish Parliament: Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Bill (26 Aug 2020)

John Finnie: The Scottish Green Party will support the bill. The cabinet secretary describes it as technical—it is about mechanisms and process. The tension that is apparent in relation to what might seem a fairly innocuous piece of legislation is because expectations were built up that it would be much more. Those expectations were there because—but I see the cabinet secretary shrugging. He is well...


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