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Agenda item 6 concerns a first-stage report about our engagement with the European Commission work programme. I invite members to comment on the paper, which outlines the next steps in our engagement and assesses which Commission proposals are likely to be devolved interests. We have had a detailed conversation today about what is and is not a devolved interest.
In our earlier discussion of structural funding, comment was made about a fund that the witness felt should have been devolved. That is outwith the work programme, I hasten to add, but it was an interesting comment. I was shocked that that fund did not come up to Scotland at all. It was suggested that it was up to the Government to pursue that, but could we pursue why Scotland does not get that fund?
From memory, I think that the contributor was talking about the management of UK-wide funds. The management of those funds does not cross over the border, so she felt that the Scottish Government should call on the UK Government to seek to rectify that.
I agree with the lady that we should do that.
It would be fair to pursue it. I am not entirely sure what the specific measures are, but I guess that we could easily find out.
We can look at the Official Report and find out what the issues were. We could also write to officials about that. We might get the response more quickly if we did that than if we were to write to the minister.
Yes. Let us do that.
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