Justice 2 Committee, 18 Jun 2002
Meeting date: Tuesday, June 18, 2002
Official Report
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Annual Report
We move quickly on to item 4, which is the annual report. I refer members to the draft committee annual report for the parliamentary year of 12 May 2001 to 11 May 2002. The format of the report follows the straightforward style agreed by the conveners liaison group. I do not have time to go through the report paragraph by paragraph, but I will take any general comments or corrections.
I simply comment that the report seems to detail reasonably briefly what we have been doing in the current year. I am quite relaxed with the report being submitted as the final report.
I have a few additions. I felt that the reference to the Protection from Abuse (Scotland) Bill, with which we dealt at stage 2, should refer to the fact that members of the committee were involved in the creation of the bill. I do not know whether that involvement is outwith the time scale of the report, but I felt that if we were mentioning the bill, then we should mention those members.
On petitions, I thought that we should make more of our work on petition PE366, which has been our priority petition. The clerks, Bill Aitken and I have worked hard behind the scenes on the petition, so I thought that we should give a bit of weight to that.
I wonder whether we can also mention women's offending or whether that is outwith the time scale. I am not sure when we started that report.
Gillian Baxendine (Clerk):
I cannot remember, but I can check the timing.
That is all.
I remind members that the next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday 25 June, when we will do stage 2 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill. I know that that day is problematic for some members, but that is the slot that we were given because we thought that Parliament would be meeting on the morning of Wednesday 26 June. Apologies for that, but I do not think that we can do much about it. Members will know that the deadline for amendments is 2 pm this Friday, 21 June. Today's business bulletin indicates that we will not go beyond section 12.
Members agreed that we would take in private item 5, which is a draft report on the inquiry into the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.
Meeting suspended until 12:40 and thereafter continued in private until 12:50.