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Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Amendment <br />(No 2) Regulations 2004 (SSI 2004/458)
Again, no points have been identified on the regulations, but there is an issue to do with consolidation and late implementation. Do members want to raise any issues?
No problems.
Members will note that the principal regulations have now been amended seven times.
Perhaps we should point that out to the Executive. Is it thinking about doing something about that?
I have previously suggested to the clerk that perhaps we need to itemise the amendments that go through the committee. The matter has been brought to our attention. When we next discuss various issues with the Executive, perhaps we can get a timeframe for addressing the consolidation.
It would be useful for us to have a tracking system that allowed us to monitor the outstanding work load.
Absolutely.
Perhaps we could also ask the Executive what it intends to do. Is it going to employ somebody to try to bring things into line?
The letter that members have recently received from the Scottish Executive—you should all have received it in your mail—goes over most of the significant points that we raised with it and includes what it is trying to do about consolidation. To follow what Murray Tosh said, when we discuss the matter further with the Executive, perhaps we should consider the matter in a much more workmanlike manner so that we can follow it through.
Will that letter be on the agenda in the near future? We might want to discuss some issues on the record. The letter refers to a better form of tracking. We might simply want to buy into the Executive's tracking if it can reflect the number of times that instruments have been modified. If we can agree a target for the revision of orders, what the Executive will do might satisfy our needs and prevent our doing any additional work. We might want to put that to the Executive.
Yes. Exactly.
We should discuss the letter at some point, as there are strange references and strange statements in it that we need to explore.
Do members agree that we should put that on the agenda for next week?
We will also take on board Murray Tosh's point.