Members' Allowances Scheme and Equipment and Furniture Scheme

The motion

That the Parliament

(a)
directs the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (the SPCB) to provide information technology and other office equipment in accordance with the Equipment and Furniture Scheme annexed hereto as Annex One;

determines that the said Equipment and Furniture Scheme shall come into effect from the first date when a member takes the oath or affirmation after the next ordinary or as the case may be, extraordinary, general election, except in relation to a new member returned prior to the next general election under section 9 or 10 of the Scotland Act 1998, when the Scheme shall come into effect for that member on the date when such member takes the oath or affirmation;
(b)
confers functions upon the SPCB to pay allowances in each financial year to members in accordance with the Members' Allowances Scheme annexed hereto as Annex Two and confers other functions upon the SPCB as specified in that said Scheme;

determines that the said Members' Allowances Scheme shall come into effect on 1 July 2001;

directs the SPCB to pay on and after the date the said Scheme comes into effect until 31 March 2002, the rates and amounts of allowances for the whole of that financial year, under deduction of such amounts paid to or claimed by members in respect of the period commencing on 1 April 2001 to the day preceding the date of this Scheme coming into effect;

directs the SPCB to make such other deductions or adjustments in respect of employers' National Insurance and pension contributions between the current Scheme and the said new Scheme as the SPCB considers equitable;

(c) rescinds:
the Resolution of the Parliament of 16 March 2000 agreeing the Equipment and Furniture Scheme, on the first date when a member takes the oath or affirmation after the next ordinary or as the case may be, extraordinary general election as provided for in a(ii) above;

the Resolution of the Parliament of 16 March 2000 agreeing the current Members' Allowances Scheme on the date specified in b(ii) above.

ANNEX ONE

This is the Equipment and Furniture Scheme referred to in the foregoing motion.

"The Equipment and Furniture Scheme

Provision of Information Technology and other Office Equipment, and Office Furniture

The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body ("the SPCB") shall provide information technology and other office equipment, and office furniture for an office, within the constituency/region from which a member was returned.

Such information technology and other office equipment and office furniture is provided for the use of a member for the purpose of carrying out his or her Parliamentary duties and

a member may select during a Parliamentary session the equipment and furniture concerned but only from a list of items specified by the SPCB and subject to not exceeding the maximum number permitted for each item on that list;

the member shall be responsible for the protection and security of such equipment and furniture and the SPCB may, if it has reasonable grounds to believe that any such equipment or furniture is being misused, require the return of the equipment or furniture;

the replacement of any item referred to in (a) shall be permitted where the SPCB is satisfied that it is necessary.

(3) Where, arising from an election or the filling of a regional vacancy in terms of section 10 of the Scotland Act 1998, equipment becomes available, it shall be utilised by a new member and subparagraph (2)(a) would only apply where, in the opinion of the SPCB, additional or replacement items are required.

(4) Where a member is reelected the equipment and furniture utilised by the member in the previous session shall continue to be utilised by the member and subparagraph (2)(a) shall only apply where, in the opinion of the SPCB additional or replacement items are required.

2. Provision of Office Supplies

(1) The SPCB shall provide office supplies and postage stamps or postage paid envelopes to a member for the purpose

No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

No MSP has added their name to this motion.

No contribution in the Official Report cites S1M-02024 by reference.