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Chamber and committees

Rural Development Committee, 18 Dec 2001

Meeting date: Tuesday, December 18, 2001


Contents


Fur Farming (Prohibition) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

The Convener:

Item 6 is consideration of supplementary written evidence at stage 1 of the Fur Farming (Prohibition) (Scotland) Bill. Following our request for further evidence on animal welfare, members have received further detailed submissions. A couple of additions arrived very late and have been e-mailed to us. Copies were sent to members today. Do members want to comment on the submissions?

I have not had time to read them properly.

I am sure that you have not—nor have any of the rest of us, it must be said.

So how can we comment on them?

If you had had time to read them, you could have commented on them.

We cannot comment on them if we have not read them.

Very true, Mr McGrigor. Members may wish to decide whether the additional evidence or just the summaries in our papers should be printed in our stage 1 report. My view is that the summaries are quite sufficient.

Having read the papers, I agree that the summaries would suffice.

Are members content with that?

Members indicated agreement.

We previously agreed that the final agenda item would be taken in private.

Meeting continued in private until 16:17.