Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Official Report
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New Petitions (Notification)
The committee is invited to note the new petitions that have been lodged since our last meeting. They will be timetabled to come before us for consideration at the earliest opportunity.
The next item on our agenda will be taken in private, as agreed earlier. Before I close the public part of our meeting, I want to make a few points about our work this year.
Over the course of the year, we have met 19 times. Seventeen of those meetings have been in Holyrood and the others were held in Anstruther and Arran. We have considered 78 new petitions and 304 current petitions—I should note that that number includes some petitions that have been before us two, three or four times this year. We estimate that we have issued around 2,000 individual letters and e-mails requesting information on those petitions. That is quite a staggering volume of material to have initiated, processed and considered in the interests of moving the petitions forward. I thank all members of the committee—including those who are unable to get out of their homes today—for their efforts in tackling all the petitions that came before us.
Our next meeting will be at 2 o’clock on Tuesday 11 January 2011. Although it is a bit early, I wish you all a merry Christmas and a peaceful new year.
15:33
Meeting continued in private until 15:38.