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Supermarkets (High Streets) (PE1497)
Agenda item 3 is petition PE1497. On 30 September, the Public Petitions Committee referred PE1497, by Ellie Harrison, to the committee. The petition calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to give local councils and communities the power to stop unwanted supermarket expansion on their local high streets. Do members feel that the petition has any relevance to our scrutiny of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill and, if so, can we give the clerks direction on which areas of the bill we feel that the petition is relevant to? We have already started asking questions on the issue in relation to the bill, and I suggest that we continue in the same vein and allow such questions at relevant points during our scrutiny of the bill. Are members agreed?
Members indicated agreement.
Should we leave the petition open or close it? My feeling is that we should keep it open until we have dealt with the scrutiny of the bill. Is that agreed?
Members indicated agreement.