European and External Relations Committee, 24 Jun 2003

Meeting date: Tuesday, June 24, 2003

Official Report 206KB pdf

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Employment and Social Responsibility Inquiry (Executive Response)

The next item on the agenda is the Scottish Executive's response to a report from the previous committee during the previous session. After recess, I hope that there will be new items on the agenda. However, this is the Executive's response to the European employment strategy and corporate social responsibility report that was issued by the previous committee.

First, we thank the Executive for its response. I invite comments from members. I cannot see anything highly controversial in the response, so if there are no more comments, I will move swiftly to the next item on the agenda. One outstanding item is the previous committee's agreement to invite the United Kingdom minister Stephen Timms to speak to the committee on the subject. I understand that he is still the responsible minister. Do we want to pursue that invitation, if the minister will be in Scotland at some point?

We have a lot on the agenda.

Okay—we will ask the clerk to monitor the issue and keep us informed of significant developments.