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Meeting of the Parliament 16 May 2013 : Thursday, May 16, 2013
Ruth Davidson (Glasgow) (Con)

2. To ask the First Minister when he will next meet the Secretary of State for Scotland. (S4F-01375)



Meeting of the Parliament 16 May 2013 : Thursday, May 16, 2013
Ruth Davidson Last year, we had the embarrassing pantomime of the First Minister pretending to have legal advice on an independent Scotland’s relationship with the European Union and fighting his way through the courts to guard its contents, only for us all to find that no such advice existed—it was made up to co...

Meeting of the Parliament 16 May 2013 : Thursday, May 16, 2013
Ruth Davidson In terms of bare-faced bravado, the First Minister is going some himself, when the Scottish National Party’s own voters are more interested in holding a referendum on Europe than they are in voting for independence. [Interruption.]



Meeting of the Parliament 16 May 2013 : Thursday, May 16, 2013
Ruth Davidson Although we were promised the information seven months ago, it is still being kept secret. We do not have it. Last night, we heard from another minister, who said that at last Scottish Government legal advice on the EU actually exists. On the basis that his minister was not pretending, the First Min...

Meeting of the Parliament 09 May 2013 : Thursday, May 09, 2013
Ruth Davidson (Glasgow) (Con)

2. To ask the First Minister when he will next meet the Prime Minister. (S4F-01369)



Meeting of the Parliament 09 May 2013 : Thursday, May 09, 2013
Ruth Davidson This week, a diagnosed psychopath and triple axe murderer who killed a fellow patient in Carstairs, a nurse and a police officer was set free. Thomas McCulloch was told that he would spend the rest of his life in jail but, thanks to a human rights appeal, he is once again walking our streets. I know...

Meeting of the Parliament 09 May 2013 : Thursday, May 09, 2013
Ruth Davidson I note that this time the First Minister is saying that it is the Parole Board that is the reason. The problem is that, when I put the same question to the First Minister in November 2011, he used European Union human rights law as an excuse for not having whole-life tariffs in Scotland. Last Januar...

Meeting of the Parliament 02 May 2013 : Thursday, May 02, 2013
Ruth Davidson (Glasgow) (Con)

2. I, too, would like to recognise the service and the sacrifice of Corporal William Savage and Fusilier Samuel Flint from the Royal Highland Fusiliers, second battalion, the Royal Regiment of Scotland, and of Private Robert Hetherington from the 51st Highland, seventh battalion, who was...

Meeting of the Parliament 02 May 2013 : Thursday, May 02, 2013
Ruth Davidson To summarise the currency debate so far, the First Minister has said that he is right and that senior nationalists, separatist colleagues, yes Scotland board members, three former Bank of England experts and his own former economic adviser are all wrong.

Is the Institute of Chartered Acco...

Meeting of the Parliament 02 May 2013 : Thursday, May 02, 2013
Ruth Davidson I have the ICAS report here. It raises a number of questions—12 of them, in fact—none of which seemed to be answered by the First Minister’s finance spokesman on Sunday, when he took to the airwaves to try to protect the Government. The question that I liked most was whether there would be a Scottis...
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S4M-06582.1 Rhoda Grant: Electricity Market Reform—As an amendment to motion S4M-06582 in the name o
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Amendment 8 moved by Tavish Scott on motion S4M-06544 Paul Wheelhouse: Aquaculture and Fisheries (Sc
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Amendment 9 moved by Tavish Scott on motion S4M-06544 Paul Wheelhouse: Aquaculture and Fisheries (Sc
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Amendment 10 moved by Claudia Beamish on motion S4M-06544 Paul Wheelhouse: Aquaculture and Fisheries
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Amendment 11 moved by Claudia Beamish on motion S4M-06544 Paul Wheelhouse: Aquaculture and Fisheries
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Amendment 12 moved by Claudia Beamish on motion S4M-06544 Paul Wheelhouse: Aquaculture and Fisheries
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Amendment 13 moved by Claudia Beamish on motion S4M-06544 Paul Wheelhouse: Aquaculture and Fisheries
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Amendment 3 moved by Alex Fergusson on motion S4M-06544 Paul Wheelhouse: Aquaculture and Fisheries (
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Amendment 14 moved by Claudia Beamish on motion S4M-06544 Paul Wheelhouse: Aquaculture and Fisheries
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Amendment 15 moved by Tavish Scott on motion S4M-06544 Paul Wheelhouse: Aquaculture and Fisheries (S
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Motion S4M-06569: Ruth Davidson, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 14/05/2013 Show Full Motion >>
Motion S4M-05988.2: Ruth Davidson, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 19/03/2013 Show Full Motion >>
Motion S4M-04594.1: Ruth Davidson, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 29/10/2012 Show Full Motion >>
Motion S4M-02135: Ruth Davidson, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 27/02/2012 Show Full Motion >>
Motion S4M-01752: Ruth Davidson, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 18/01/2012 Show Full Motion >>
Motion S4M-01364: Ruth Davidson, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 17/11/2011 Show Full Motion >>
Motion S4M-00800: Ruth Davidson, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 07/09/2011 Show Full Motion >>
Motion S4M-00690: Ruth Davidson, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 17/08/2011 Show Full Motion >>
Motion S4M-00671: Ruth Davidson, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 15/08/2011 Show Full Motion >>
Motion S4M-00308.1: Ruth Davidson, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 15/06/2011 Show Full Motion >>
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Question S4F-01393: Ruth Davidson, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 16/05/2013 Show Full Question >>
Question S4F-01375: Ruth Davidson, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 09/05/2013 Show Full Question >>
Question S4F-01369: Ruth Davidson, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 02/05/2013 Show Full Question >>
Question S4F-01330: Ruth Davidson, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 25/04/2013 Show Full Question >>
Question S4F-01313: Ruth Davidson, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 19/04/2013 Show Full Question >>
Question S4F-01298: Ruth Davidson, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 15/04/2013 Show Full Question >>
Question S4F-01283: Ruth Davidson, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 21/03/2013 Show Full Question >>
Question S4F-01261: Ruth Davidson, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 14/03/2013 Show Full Question >>
Question S4F-01240: Ruth Davidson, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 07/03/2013 Show Full Question >>
Question S4F-01220: Ruth Davidson, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 28/02/2013 Show Full Question >>

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