TESCO and Whyte & Mackay have been asked to re-appear at the Scottish Parliament following claims over mistakes in their evidence about minimum alcohol pricing.
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Scotsman on 12th Mar 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
Supermarket chain Tesco says it wants to see curbs on the sale of cheap alcohol during this Parliament.
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BBCPolitics on 21st May 2010 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT MOTION Date of Lodging: 18 March 2009 Short Title: University Rector’s Torture Evidence S3M-03730 Bill Wilson (West of Scotland) (SNP): That the Parliament supports the request by the rector of the University of Dundee, Craig Murray, to give evidence to the Westminster Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights on the subject of the UK Government’s policy on...
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CraigMurray on 18th Mar 2009 (via craigmurray.org.uk)
A SEARCH was under way today for a compromise on the controversial "Tesco tax" to help the Scottish Government get its budget through the Scottish Parliament.
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Scotsman on 27th Jan 2011 (via news.scotsman.com)
Tesco to challenge any person who looks under 25 if they buy alcohol - Telegraph. I have sympathy for Tesco. The law puts the company at risk of losing valuable alcohol sales if employees make innocent mistakes. I feel sorry...
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TheLastDitch on 27th Mar 2009 (via lastditch.typepad.com)
The Scottish Parliament has voted against a proposal by the SNP government to set a minimum price per unit for alcohol.
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BBCPolitics on 10th Nov 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
ALEX Salmond is preparing to defy the Scottish Parliament and continue with his plans to raise the age for buying off-sales alcohol to 21 – despite its overwhelming rejectio
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Scotsman on 2nd Oct 2008 (via news.scotsman.com)
THE SNP government's flagship £30 million "Tesco tax" is now almost certain to be rejected by the Scottish Parliament after a Holyrood committee yesterday voted ag
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Scotsman on 27th Jan 2011 (via news.scotsman.com)
There are nearly sixty Westminster Members of Parliament sitting for Scottish seats. Far too many when so much decision-taking has been devolved to the Scottish Parliament. Almost every aspect of every day life in Scotland, where there is any government intervention, is a matter for their own Government and their own Parliament. The intervention of those sitting for Scottish seats in matters that ...
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AngelsInMarble on 20th May 2009 (via hatfieldgirl.blogspot.com)
As I prepare for my evidence session before the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights on 28 April, I was looking back for the evidence I gave to the European Parliament on extraordinary rendition. Unfortunately it seems that no transcript was made of the committee questioning me (unless anyone who knows the system there better than I can come up with one) but rather a kind of precis made o...
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CraigMurray on 31st Mar 2009 (via craigmurray.org.uk)