Right to Purchase (Prescribed Persons) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2005 <br />(SSI 2005/275)
Agenda item 3 is an instrument subject to annulment. Members will see that an Executive note was not supplied with the order—another example of an on-going issue with the committee. In this particular case, I would have found a note useful. Our briefing paper gives the example of janitors' houses that have been part of school estates. That subject has not been covered before but will be covered by the order.
There should have been an Executive note; it would have been helpful, to say the least. It is good practice to provide such notes. Can we ask the Executive why there was no note?
I am a bit reticent about asking that question because we have asked it many times. The issue is one that we will cover in our review. In this particular case, a note would have been useful because more explanation was needed.
Rather than asking the Executive for a response that we might be able to predict, we should perhaps simply advise the Executive that a note can be useful, that this instrument is a case in point, and that, although we will shortly be returning to the matter in general, we would like the Executive to reflect on the particular point that we are making.
We could point out that, as well as information on the background to this particular policy, information on any consultation would have been useful too.
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