Local Government Committee, 12 Dec 2000
Meeting date: Tuesday, December 12, 2000
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Scottish Parliament Local Government Committee Tuesday 12 December 2000 (Afternoon)
[The Convener opened the meeting at 14:02]
Good afternoon, comrades. I apologise to Angus MacKay, who has been here for some time.
Since the previous meeting, Kenny Gibson and I have had a frank and open discussion—as they say—and we have agreed that the Procedures Committee will consider the principle of so-called inspired questions. Kenny agrees that that is where the matter should be left; it does not come under the remit of this committee. We will wait to hear what the Procedures Committee says. It is a general principle, rather than a particular one, but in its deliberations that committee may use this committee as an example.