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What is happening with this bill, Martin?
When we drew up the agenda, we thought that the bill might have been lodged by this time. However, as it has not been, there is not much that I can report to the committee. Committee members might want to discuss how they will deal with the bill when it is lodged.
We agreed to come up with a sort of synopsis of all the evidence that we have heard so far. That would let us start working on a report. We have to consider evidence in time to allow the Education, Culture and Sport Committee, which is the lead committee, to consider our report when it takes evidence from other bodies. I hope that we can have that synopsis by the next meeting.
When will we deal with that? The bill will be available on Thursday or Friday. Will we deal with it at the next meeting?
Yes. We will have the synopsis of evidence in time for the next meeting and then we will give a report to the lead committee.
Will we put together the report at the next meeting?
We will produce the basis for a draft report at the next meeting and agree it at the one after that. We are reasonably ahead of schedule with this bill, especially compared to how we were with the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Bill.
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