Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee
Meeting date: Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Official Report
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Bannockburn 2014
Item 4 is a response from Fergus Ewing at the Scottish Government to the committee’s report on Bannockburn 2014.
As members will be aware, VisitScotland and the National Trust for Scotland have already undertaken to come back to us in January for a further evidence session and an opportunity to update the committee on how things are progressing, not just in relation to Bannockburn but in relation to the year of homecoming 2014. That will be a useful opportunity to question witnesses on issues such as ticket sales and how events planning is going.
Do members have any comments on the minister’s response? Do we want to take further action, or are we happy to wait until the next evidence session? I am happy to note any suggestions for that evidence session. Are we all agreed?
Members indicated agreement.
Do we not normally write to ministers to thank them for responding to us?
I do not think that we routinely thank ministers for letters, but we always express our gratitude to Mr Ewing in fulsome terms when he comes to the committee.
I am quite happy to thank him then.
We shall pass that on.