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Item 5 on the agenda is consideration of a paper based on a proposal by one of our advisers, Professor John Bachtler, for a seminar on local economic development, which will involve parliamentarians from Sweden and Norway but which—by the way—will take place in Scotland. The paper contains recommendations about the seminar, and I put the proposal to the committee for its views.
We should go ahead with this excellent idea and have a joint seminar with Norwegian and Swedish parliamentarians. All committees should be considering such a good and useful proposal for the following years; however, I hope that we can occasionally go to other countries, instead of being visited by parliamentarians from other countries.
Hear, hear.
Can you clarify the timing of the seminar?
I cannot answer that question today. We must first seek the necessary authority to fund the event, which will take a number of weeks. However, I think that it will happen towards the end of the summer or in the autumn.
I support the proposal.
Are members agreed on the paper?
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