Remploy

The amendment

As an amendment to motion S4M-05019 in the name of Fergus Ewing (Remploy), insert at end "; calls on the Scottish Government to consider further measures to assist those made redundant by the closure of Remploy factories, including the introduction of an employer support grant similar to the scheme operating in Wales; believes that every effort should be made to ensure a sustainable future for supported workplaces and calls on the Scottish Government to consider establishing a permanent supported workplaces taskforce, involving the First Minister’s Council of Economic Advisers, cooperatives, unions and private sector expertise to establish and deliver a strategy to secure the long-term future of supported workplaces in Scotland, and further calls on the Scottish Government to use its procurement powers to greater effect to secure contracts for supported workplaces and to consider ways of working with Remploy factories such as Springburn to find alternatives to closure."

1. 29 Nov 2012
   Remploy

   S4M-05019.1
   Carried

   93 for, 0 against, 14 abstained

1. S4M-05019.2
   Remploy

   Mary Scanlon Con Lodged 28 Nov 2012
   Defeated

   14 for, 93 against

No MSP has added their name to this amendment.

1. 29 Nov 2012
   Remploy

   Patricia Ferguson Lab Meeting of the Parliament

   I am always delighted to talk about RSBI, and I am grateful to Mr Mason for giving me the opportunity to do so. That is not only a successful model in my constituency but, ironically—as I have mentioned before in the chamber—it is on the s…
2. 29 Nov 2012
   Decision Time

   John Scott Con Meeting of the Parliament

   There are three questions to be put as a result of today’s business. The first question is, that amendment S4M-05019.1, in the name of Patricia Ferguson, which seeks to amend motion S4M-05019, in the name of Fergus Ewing, on Remploy, be ag…