Transport and the Environment Committee, 18 Mar 2003
Meeting date: Tuesday, March 18, 2003
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Scottish Parliament Transport and the Environment Committee Tuesday 18 March 2003 (Morning)
[The Convener opened the meeting at 11:05]
Welcome to the sixth meeting this year of the Transport and the Environment Committee. I must disappoint members. We had hoped to conclude all our business today so that this meeting would be our last. However, Callum Thomson, the clerk, advises me that the Subordinate Legislation Committee is likely to continue until next week its consideration of some of the statutory instruments that we had put on today's agenda. It will therefore not be possible for us to consider those instruments.
Agenda item 7 concerns a number of statutory instruments. The only one that we will be able to consider today is the Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority (Constitution, Membership and Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Amendment Order 2003 (SSI 2003/128). I propose that we defer consideration of the other statutory instruments until next week. I hope that that meeting, which is timetabled for 3 pm next Tuesday, will not be lengthy. I am sorry for any inconvenience that the extra meeting will cause members, but it is unavoidable, as the Subordinate Legislation Committee has indicated to us that it is likely to continue until next week its consideration of at least some of the instruments.
We have had only one apology for today's meeting, which is from Fiona McLeod, who is unable to attend.