(241) A STEELY EYE ON THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT

January 1, 1970 hmacqueen Uncategorized

Giving the second National Library of Scotland Donald Dewar Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 18 August 2003, Lord Steel of Aikwood, the former Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament, offered some thoughts on the future development of Scottish governance. They included the provision of revenue-raising powers for the Parliament (possibly through the reintroduction of a dog licence, prompting The Times to headline its coverage Steel tells Scotland to go to dogs for revenue”); the total abolition not only of the post of Secretary of State for Scotland

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with all MSPs elected on a single transferable vote basis); and the introduction of a legislation-revising group (which would not