Procedures Committee, 08 Nov 2005

Meeting date: Tuesday, November 8, 2005

Official Report 269KB pdf

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Private Bill Committee Assessors

The committee has discussed the best way forward in dealing with the private bill issue and we have decided to invite the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body to our next meeting to give oral evidence again. There will be a fuller briefing so that the SPCB can respond. In addition, we will correspond with the Faculty of Advocates to clarify apparent inconsistencies between its most recent submission and its previous one and members will receive a private briefing from the private bills unit.

Also, we hope to start considering a draft report at our next meeting. If there are other proposals for questions that we should ask the inquiry reporters, who sent us their written evidence, those should go to the clerk fairly smartly.

This has been a very long meeting. Thank you for your patience.

Meeting closed at 13:36.