Water and Sewerage Rates Relief for Charitable and Voluntary Organisations

The motion

That the Parliament notes with concern the financial pressures incurred by voluntary sector organisations and churches across Scotland; welcomes the previous administration’s extension of the water rates relief scheme to 2010; recognises that while in opposition the SNP was strongly supportive of introducing a water charges exemption scheme; welcomes the petition introduced by Reverend Jock Stein on behalf of Dunfermline Presbytery, on water rates relief for charities and churches, and calls on the Scottish Government to fund a replacement scheme to offer water and sewerage rates relief for charitable and voluntary organisations when the existing exemption scheme expires in 2010.


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.

1. S3M-01524.1
   Water and Sewerage Rates Relief for Charitable and Voluntary Organisations

   Iain Gray Lab Lodged 13 Mar 2008
   No recorded vote

LD 9 Lab 7 SNP 2 Green 1

Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

No contribution in the Official Report cites S3M-01524 by reference.