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Does anyone wish to raise any business under item 2?
Correspondence has arisen on the film inquiry, which we had agreed to leave until the summer. With the committee's permission, I will discuss that correspondence with Gillian Baxendine after the recess in order to start sending out letters.
We have already discussed this issue, but this morning we all received a letter from Henry McLeish about a learning accounts bill that is to be introduced. Do we have a locus on that bill? Will we be asked to comment on it at stage 1?
While the bill will go to the Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Committee, any member is free to comment on it. If the committee wishes to examine the bill, we could put it into the timetable.
Are there any other update items?
I want to record that I met representatives of the University of Edinburgh and the preferred bidders for the Cramond site, to allow them to outline to me the current negotiations with the City of Edinburgh Council's planning department. They informed me that they are discussing the proposed idea of flipping the planning brief, but that they would undertake a section 75 agreement, which would ensure that, if such a change were to go ahead, they would not be able to develop the remainder of the site. If that happens, it will accord with the wishes that we stipulated in our report on Cramond.
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