Public Petitions Committee, 06 Feb 2001

Meeting date: Tuesday, February 6, 2001

Official Report 169KB pdf

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Inadmissible Petitions

The final agenda item is inadmissible petitions, under which we have one petition to consider. Petition IP5 was submitted by Mr Donald McFadden on behalf of Southside against closure, calling for the Scottish Parliament to investigate Glasgow City Council's proposed closure of Govanhill swimming pool. It is not for the Parliament to interfere with, or otherwise get involved in, the executive decisions of elected local authorities.

The recommendation is that we advise the petitioner that the petition is inadmissible, but that due to the high number of signatures—10,000—we forward the petition to Glasgow City Council and ask that it takes the petition into account as part of its decision-making process on the proposed closure. Are we agreed?

Members indicated agreement.