Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, September 6, 2016

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Draft Third Report on Proposals and Policies

Agenda item 2 is on the committee’s approach to the forthcoming third report on proposals and policies. We understand that the Government plans to lay that report in late December, but an unintended consequence of that timing will be, potentially, that two weeks of parliamentary scrutiny would be lost due to the Christmas and new year recess period. I am sure that members will be as keen as stakeholders and other interested parties are to have the maximum opportunity to consider that very important draft report. We would like to have the fullest possible parliamentary scrutiny across a number of relevant committees.

Is the committee therefore content for me, as convener, to write to the cabinet secretary to ask whether the Scottish Government might consider delaying the publication of RPP3 until Monday 9 January 2017?

Members indicated agreement.

Obviously, a fuller discussion of the committee’s approach to scrutiny of RPP3 will follow later this month.