Local Government and Communities Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, March 10, 2021

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Subordinate Legislation

Town and Country Planning (Cairnryan Border Control Posts) (EU Exit) (Scotland) Special Development Order 2021 (SSI 2021/98)

Item 3 is consideration of a negative instrument. I refer members to paper 3, which contains further details. The instrument is laid under the negative procedure, which means that its provisions will come into force unless the Parliament agrees to a motion to annul it. No motions to annul have been laid.

The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the instrument on 24 February 2021 and determined that it did not need to draw the attention of the Parliament to the instrument on any grounds within its remit.

Does anyone have any comments on instrument?

I do not have any comments on the practicality of the instrument; I just want to point out the irony that the two areas in the UK that voted against Brexit—Northern Ireland and Scotland—are now to have a border post erected where, previously, there was not one. It is just ridiculous.

Thank you. That is on the record.

As no one has any comments, we agree that the committee does not want to make recommendations in relation to the instruments.

That concludes the public part of the meeting.