[S1M-68.1 (Amendment)] Decision Time — 24 Jun 1999 at 17:00
This looks like the vote on S1M-68.1
The description in the bulletin on 1999-06-24 is:
*S1M-68.1 Mr John Swinney: As an amendment to the motion (S1M-68) in the name of Henry McLeish leave out from "is falling" to end and insert:-- "remains a grave and ongoing economic and social problem which is not addressed by a partial representation of statistics; and calls on the Executive to develop an economic strategy that has long term sustainable growth in the economy and jobs as its focus and addresses the need to: recognise small businesses as the engine of growth in the economy and the labour market and tackles the need to improve entrepreneurship and business start-up, survival and expansion with particular emphasis on reducing business rates; develop cohesive economic development structures through greater synergy between agencies involved in economic development, inward investment, exporting and tourism and to gain maximum benefit from Scotland’s external representation; produce compelling evidence that the New Deal is delivering long-term structural change in the labour market that will be sustained when the New Deal programme has concluded, and generate competitive advantage for companies in Scotland." Supported by : Fergus Ewing, Mr Duncan Hamilton, Alex Neil, Ms Sandra White.
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Text Introducing Division:
The third question is, that amendment S1M-68.1, in the name of Mr John Swinney, which proposes an amendment to motion S1M-68, in the name of Henry McLeish, on the economy of Scotland, be agreed to. Are we all agreed?
No.
There will be a division. Those who want to vote in support of Mr Swinney's amendment should vote yes.
Party Summary
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
Party | Majority (No) | Minority (Aye) | Abstentions | Turnout |
Con | 1 | 13 | 0 | 77.8% |
Green | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
Independent | 1 | 2 | 0 | 100.0% |
Lab | 55 | 0 | 0 | 98.2% |
LDem | 14 | 2 | 0 | 100.0% |
SNP | 0 | 32 | 0 | 97.0% |
Total: | 71 | 49 | 1 | 95.3% |
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