As an amendment to motion S4M-06933 in the name of Derek Mackay (Progress Toward National Planning Framework 3 and the Scottish Planning Policy), leave out from first "; recognises" to end and insert "but notes that section 3D of the Planning (Scotland) Act 2006 places a duty on ministers to exercise their functions of preparing and revising the National Planning Framework with the objective of contributing to sustainable development; calls on the Scottish Government, in keeping with this statutory duty, to place sustainable development at the heart of planning rather than economic growth; welcomes the stated focus on climate change and creating 'a low-carbon place', but remains concerned at the likely climate impact of certain energy and transport proposals; believes that planning should also contribute to creating resilient communities, decarbonising the economy and protecting the environment; is pleased that the Hunterston coal-fired power station is no longer designated as a national development; is concerned that the extraction of unconventional fossil fuels is regarded as an opportunity; values the role of national policy and spatial planning, but calls on the Scottish Government to ensure that there is local democratic control over land use and meaningful public participation in decision-making."
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As an amendment to motion S4M-06933 in the name of Derek Mackay (Progress Toward National Planning Framework 3 and the Scottish Planning Policy), leave out from first "; recognises" to end and insert "but notes that section 3D of the Planning (Scotland) Act 2006 places a duty on ministers to exercise their functions of preparing and revising the National Planning Framework with the objective of contributing to sustainable development; calls on the Scottish Government, in keeping with this statutory duty, to place sustainable development at the heart of planning rather than economic growth; welcomes the stated focus on climate change and creating 'a low-carbon place', but remains concerned at the likely climate impact of certain energy and transport proposals; believes that planning should also contribute to creating resilient communities, decarbonising the economy and protecting the environment; is pleased that the Hunterston coal-fired power station is no longer designated as a national development; is concerned that the extraction of unconventional fossil fuels is regarded as an opportunity; values the role of national policy and spatial planning, but calls on the Scottish Government to ensure that there is local democratic control over land use and meaningful public participation in decision-making."
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12/06/2013
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As an amendment to motion S4M-06847 in the name of Kevin Stewart (Scotland's Second Oil Boom), leave out from “welcomes” to end and insert "expresses concern at the willingness of the fossil fuel industry and some politicians supporting it to ignore environmental reality by indulging in talk of a 'second oil boom'; accepts the conclusions of scientists, including Meinshausen et al as published in Nature as long ago as 2009, that the world has already emitted a third of the greenhouse gases that it can afford to emit in the period from 2000 to 2050 and that, by burning the known reserves of fossil fuels, will far exceed the remaining allowance; considers therefore that, in addition to existing categories of fossil fuel reserves, a new category of 'unburnable carbon' must be created, and believes that, regardless of whether reserves are declared unburnable, or all reserves are exploited leading to disastrous levels of climate change, either scenario implies that basing the oil and gas industry’s valuation on the assumption that all reserves will be extracted is profoundly dangerous and makes Scotland’s transition away from economic reliance on fossil fuels extremely urgent."
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As an amendment to motion S4M-06847 in the name of Kevin Stewart (Scotland's Second Oil Boom), leave out from “welcomes” to end and insert "expresses concern at the willingness of the fossil fuel industry and some politicians supporting it to ignore environmental reality by indulging in talk of a 'second oil boom'; accepts the conclusions of scientists, including Meinshausen et al as published in Nature as long ago as 2009, that the world has already emitted a third of the greenhouse gases that it can afford to emit in the period from 2000 to 2050 and that, by burning the known reserves of fossil fuels, will far exceed the remaining allowance; considers therefore that, in addition to existing categories of fossil fuel reserves, a new category of 'unburnable carbon' must be created, and believes that, regardless of whether reserves are declared unburnable, or all reserves are exploited leading to disastrous levels of climate change, either scenario implies that basing the oil and gas industry’s valuation on the assumption that all reserves will be extracted is profoundly dangerous and makes Scotland’s transition away from economic reliance on fossil fuels extremely urgent."
Supported by: Alison Johnstone
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As an amendment to motion S4M-06766 in the name of Keith Brown (Transforming Scotland's Railways), leave out from first “acknowledges” to end and insert “recognises the constraints under which the ScotRail franchise must operate as a result of UK legislation, but considers that the Scottish Government could ensure greater transparency in its franchise decisions; believes that, when Scotland is able to remove the constraints of UK legislation, renationalisation of the railways or the use of a non-profit franchise holder would deliver better value for the public investment in Scotland’s railways; condemns the UK Government’s plans to reprivatise the profitable East Coast line, a decision that it understands was announced without reference to the Scottish Government; expresses concern that the Scottish Government’s road-building priorities risk making rail uncompetitive on price and journey times for routes north of the central belt, and believes that the public money currently committed to upgrading the A9 would be better spent on rail infrastructure, including the comparatively modest upgrades required to improve the Highland main line.”
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As an amendment to motion S4M-06766 in the name of Keith Brown (Transforming Scotland's Railways), leave out from first “acknowledges” to end and insert “recognises the constraints under which the ScotRail franchise must operate as a result of UK legislation, but considers that the Scottish Government could ensure greater transparency in its franchise decisions; believes that, when Scotland is able to remove the constraints of UK legislation, renationalisation of the railways or the use of a non-profit franchise holder would deliver better value for the public investment in Scotland’s railways; condemns the UK Government’s plans to reprivatise the profitable East Coast line, a decision that it understands was announced without reference to the Scottish Government; expresses concern that the Scottish Government’s road-building priorities risk making rail uncompetitive on price and journey times for routes north of the central belt, and believes that the public money currently committed to upgrading the A9 would be better spent on rail infrastructure, including the comparatively modest upgrades required to improve the Highland main line.”
Supported by: John Finnie, Margo MacDonald, Alison Johnstone, Jean Urquhart
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 30/05/2013
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That the Parliament expresses deep concern for what it considers the many private sector tenants in Scotland who remain at risk of unfairly losing their rental deposits; notes reports in the Evening Times that most private landlords in Scotland are not yet complying with the legal requirement to lodge their tenants’ deposits with an approved deposit scheme, despite the deadline for compliance having passed on 15 May 2013; further notes the concern expressed about this issue by the Glasgow Central Citizens’ Advice Bureau, which has been receiving new clients every day seeking help in recovering deposits and which has described the issue as the biggest facing young people in the city; would welcome an end to exploitative and unscrupulous practices in the private rented sector and believes that this is vital if tenants are to have confidence in taking on tenancies, and considers that the forthcoming housing bill provides the opportunity for measures, including the regulation of letting agents, that will safeguard the interests of tenants.
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That the Parliament expresses deep concern for what it considers the many private sector tenants in Scotland who remain at risk of unfairly losing their rental deposits; notes reports in the Evening Times that most private landlords in Scotland are not yet complying with the legal requirement to lodge their tenants’ deposits with an approved deposit scheme, despite the deadline for compliance having passed on 15 May 2013; further notes the concern expressed about this issue by the Glasgow Central Citizens’ Advice Bureau, which has been receiving new clients every day seeking help in recovering deposits and which has described the issue as the biggest facing young people in the city; would welcome an end to exploitative and unscrupulous practices in the private rented sector and believes that this is vital if tenants are to have confidence in taking on tenancies, and considers that the forthcoming housing bill provides the opportunity for measures, including the regulation of letting agents, that will safeguard the interests of tenants.
Supported by: Alison Johnstone, Patricia Ferguson, Drew Smith, Margo MacDonald, Anne McTaggart, John Finnie, Jean Urquhart, Mike MacKenzie, John Pentland, Colin Beattie R, John Wilson, Gil Paterson, Dennis Robertson, Margaret McDougall, Jamie Hepburn, Jim Hume, Neil Findlay, Marco Biagi, Liam McArthur, Linda Fabiani, David Torrance, Malcolm Chisholm, Elaine Murray, Maureen Watt, Sarah Boyack, Sandra White, John Mason, Kezia Dugdale
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 04/06/2013
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That the Parliament welcomes the 2013 Glasgow Southside Film Festival, which runs from 16 to 19 May; notes that the festival is now in its third year, in which time it has shown screenings to over 3,000 people; further notes the festival’s continued use of pop-up cinemas, which bring films to the community in venues ranging from pubs and cafés to museums and community halls; welcomes the role of the social enterprise, The Glad Café, as an information and ticket hub; understands that this year's highlights include a screening of the 1925 Soviet classic, Battleship Potemkin, which will be accompanied by a live Wurlitzer organ, and, We Are Northern Lights, which, it believes, is Scotland’s first ever crowd-sourced, mass-participation film; welcomes the news that the programme includes workshops aimed at young people, including one on filmmaking, and wishes the festival a very successful run.
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That the Parliament welcomes the 2013 Glasgow Southside Film Festival, which runs from 16 to 19 May; notes that the festival is now in its third year, in which time it has shown screenings to over 3,000 people; further notes the festival’s continued use of pop-up cinemas, which bring films to the community in venues ranging from pubs and cafés to museums and community halls; welcomes the role of the social enterprise, The Glad Café, as an information and ticket hub; understands that this year's highlights include a screening of the 1925 Soviet classic, Battleship Potemkin, which will be accompanied by a live Wurlitzer organ, and, We Are Northern Lights, which, it believes, is Scotland’s first ever crowd-sourced, mass-participation film; welcomes the news that the programme includes workshops aimed at young people, including one on filmmaking, and wishes the festival a very successful run.
Supported by: Drew Smith, Jackie Baillie, Annabelle Ewing, David Torrance, Bill Kidd, Hanzala Malik, Chic Brodie, Anne McTaggart, Patricia Ferguson, Rob Gibson, James Dornan, John Wilson, Kenneth Gibson, Richard Lyle, Roderick Campbell, Jean Urquhart, Mike MacKenzie, Jamie Hepburn, Kevin Stewart, Alison Johnstone, Richard Simpson, Colin Beattie, Sarah Boyack, Maureen Watt, Clare Adamson, Sandra White, Gil Paterson
Current Status: Fallen on 18/06/2013
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That the Parliament congratulates the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on passing a unanimous resolution calling on the San Francisco Employee Retirement System (SFERS) to divest over $583 million invested in the 200 corporations that hold the majority of the world’s fossil fuel reserves; notes that the resolution makes San Francisco the third US city after Ithaca and Seattle to push for fossil fuel divestment and that, if the SFERS Board agrees to the request, it will become the largest US pension fund to divest from the fossil fuel industry; believes that financial divestment has a crucial role to play in moving the world away from its fossil fuel dependence, and urges all those making investment decisions in Scotland's public and private sectors to follow the lead given by the gofossilfree.org campaign and begin a programme of divestment from the fossil fuel industry.
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That the Parliament congratulates the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on passing a unanimous resolution calling on the San Francisco Employee Retirement System (SFERS) to divest over $583 million invested in the 200 corporations that hold the majority of the world’s fossil fuel reserves; notes that the resolution makes San Francisco the third US city after Ithaca and Seattle to push for fossil fuel divestment and that, if the SFERS Board agrees to the request, it will become the largest US pension fund to divest from the fossil fuel industry; believes that financial divestment has a crucial role to play in moving the world away from its fossil fuel dependence, and urges all those making investment decisions in Scotland's public and private sectors to follow the lead given by the gofossilfree.org campaign and begin a programme of divestment from the fossil fuel industry.
Supported by: John Finnie, Alison Johnstone, Jean Urquhart
Current Status: Fallen on 18/06/2013
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As an amendment to motion S4M-06159 in the name of Elaine Smith (St Margaret's Children and Family Care Centre), leave out from “assurances” to end and insert “it was entirely clear to members that it would not affect the operation of the equality legislation that was being considered by the UK Parliament at around the same time; believes that one of the arguments used repeatedly against amendments in relation to faith-based adoption agencies was that these would have been seen to endorse discrimination against same-sex couples; understands that the amendments in question were defeated in a free vote after considerable public and parliamentary debate; believes that to exclude couples from consideration as adoptive parents on grounds of homophobic discrimination is entirely unjustified and places prejudice above the best interests of children; notes that a number of other faith-based adoption agencies in the UK have changed their practices and continue to provide their services while complying with the Equality Act 2010, and urges St Margaret’s to do the same."
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As an amendment to motion S4M-06159 in the name of Elaine Smith (St Margaret's Children and Family Care Centre), leave out from “assurances” to end and insert “it was entirely clear to members that it would not affect the operation of the equality legislation that was being considered by the UK Parliament at around the same time; believes that one of the arguments used repeatedly against amendments in relation to faith-based adoption agencies was that these would have been seen to endorse discrimination against same-sex couples; understands that the amendments in question were defeated in a free vote after considerable public and parliamentary debate; believes that to exclude couples from consideration as adoptive parents on grounds of homophobic discrimination is entirely unjustified and places prejudice above the best interests of children; notes that a number of other faith-based adoption agencies in the UK have changed their practices and continue to provide their services while complying with the Equality Act 2010, and urges St Margaret’s to do the same."
Supported by: John Finnie
Current Status: Fallen on 18/06/2013
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That the Parliament notes the announcement of a bidding process for a private sector operator for the east coast main line rail service; deeply regrets what it considers the UK Government’s continued ideological obsession with privatisation; considers that some of the best public transport services in Europe are delivered by state-owned and democratically accountable operating companies; calls on the UK Government to ensure that all rail franchises, including the east coast, allow not-for-profit and public sector bids, as a first step toward bringing the UK’s railways back into public ownership, and calls on the Scottish Government to make preparations for bringing Scotland’s railways back into public ownership as soon as the legislative powers are within the competence of the Scottish Parliament.
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That the Parliament notes the announcement of a bidding process for a private sector operator for the east coast main line rail service; deeply regrets what it considers the UK Government’s continued ideological obsession with privatisation; considers that some of the best public transport services in Europe are delivered by state-owned and democratically accountable operating companies; calls on the UK Government to ensure that all rail franchises, including the east coast, allow not-for-profit and public sector bids, as a first step toward bringing the UK’s railways back into public ownership, and calls on the Scottish Government to make preparations for bringing Scotland’s railways back into public ownership as soon as the legislative powers are within the competence of the Scottish Parliament.
Supported by: John Finnie, Alison Johnstone, Jean Urquhart, Helen Eadie
Current Status: Fallen on 18/06/2013
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That the Parliament welcomes the report, If Britain fired Trident, by the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), which illustrates the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of an attack on a large urban area with multiple nuclear weapons; understands that devastation would be on such a scale that humanitarian and emergency response agencies would be utterly unable to provide an adequate response; understands that an attack using 40 nuclear warheads, the normal complement on a Trident submarine, would be expected to result in 5.4 million deaths; offers good wishes to the campaigners holding a Scrap Trident demonstration in Glasgow on 13 April 2013 and a blockade to shut down Faslane on 15 April; notes that Scottish representatives are due to attend an international conference on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons in Oslo on 4-5 March 2013, and urges the Scottish Government to adopt a position of ending international strategies based on nuclear weapons instead of seeking to join organisations based on such strategies.
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That the Parliament welcomes the report, If Britain fired Trident, by the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), which illustrates the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of an attack on a large urban area with multiple nuclear weapons; understands that devastation would be on such a scale that humanitarian and emergency response agencies would be utterly unable to provide an adequate response; understands that an attack using 40 nuclear warheads, the normal complement on a Trident submarine, would be expected to result in 5.4 million deaths; offers good wishes to the campaigners holding a Scrap Trident demonstration in Glasgow on 13 April 2013 and a blockade to shut down Faslane on 15 April; notes that Scottish representatives are due to attend an international conference on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons in Oslo on 4-5 March 2013, and urges the Scottish Government to adopt a position of ending international strategies based on nuclear weapons instead of seeking to join organisations based on such strategies.
Supported by: Jean Urquhart, John Finnie, Christina McKelvie, Willie Coffey, David Torrance, Alison Johnstone, Mike MacKenzie, Gordon MacDonald, Nigel Don, Elaine Smith
Current Status: Fallen on 08/05/2013
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That the Parliament congratulates the award-winning Aberdeenshire photographer, Alicia Bruce, on her ongoing photography project about Menie, an area of outstanding natural beauty on the Aberdeenshire coast; understands that her photographs from this series have gained international acclaim and have been published in The Times, The Scotsman and several arts magazines, and that two of the portraits have been acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland, and welcomes that Alicia's photographs, many of which restage compositions from celebrated paintings, have helped to tell the story of the residents of Menie, whose homes came under threat due to what it considers the bullish golf course development of Donald Trump, and to portray a side of that story that otherwise might have gone unheard.
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That the Parliament congratulates the award-winning Aberdeenshire photographer, Alicia Bruce, on her ongoing photography project about Menie, an area of outstanding natural beauty on the Aberdeenshire coast; understands that her photographs from this series have gained international acclaim and have been published in The Times, The Scotsman and several arts magazines, and that two of the portraits have been acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland, and welcomes that Alicia's photographs, many of which restage compositions from celebrated paintings, have helped to tell the story of the residents of Menie, whose homes came under threat due to what it considers the bullish golf course development of Donald Trump, and to portray a side of that story that otherwise might have gone unheard.
Supported by: Alison Johnstone, David Stewart, Jean Urquhart, Neil Findlay, Jackie Baillie, Richard Lyle, Colin Beattie, Nigel Don, Malcolm Chisholm
Current Status: Fallen on 08/05/2013
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