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    Thursday's business in the Chamber

    Thursday's business in the Chamber starts at 11.40am and includes:

    • First Minister’s Questions
    • Members’ Business from Christine Grahame on James IV and Flodden Field

    Find out more in the Business Bulletin

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    Thursday's business in the Chamber

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    New strategy needed on teen pregnancy

    A new national strategy for tackling teenage pregnancy should be developed by the Scottish Government, according to a report published by the Scottish Parliament’s Health and Sport Committee, following a six-month inquiry into the issue.

    Read the news release

    Committee visit to the Young Mums unit at Wester Hailes Education Centre

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    New strategy needed on teen pregnancy

  • Watch >> Wednesday's video round-up

    In Wednesday’s video round-up, the Health and Sport Committee calls for a new national strategy to tackle teenage pregnancy, the Finance Secretary, John Swinney MSP, sets out Government spending and the Justice Secretary, Kenny MacAskill MSP, makes the case for a Victims and Witnesses Bill.   

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    News from Holyrood

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    Watch >> Wednesday's video round-up

  • Convener Mary Fee MSP at the launch of the Equal Opportunities Committee's Women and Work report at Highland Fling nursery in Portobello

    Call for timetable on right to childcare

    A timetable for a statutory right to childcare that includes children up to the age of fifteen and disabled children has been called for by the Equal Opportunities Committee in a report published on Tuesday.

    Read the news release

    Picture: Convener Mary Fee MSP at the launch of the Women and Work report at Highland Fling nursery in Portobello

     

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    Call for timetable on right to childcare

 
 
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Business Bulletin

The Business Bulletin is published each morning when the Parliament is in session. It includes details of current, future and past business of the Parliament.

Presiding Officer Rt Hon Tricia Marwick MSP and Angus Hogg, chair of the Carnegie UK Trust, at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

Andy Warhol exhibition

The Scottish Parliament is set to host a free exhibition of more than forty works by Andy Warhol.

Andy Warhol: Pop, Power and Politics opens on 4 October 2013.

Image © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / DACS, London 2013.

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