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Chamber and committees

Plenary, 25 Jun 2009

Meeting date: Thursday, June 25, 2009


Contents


Point of Order

The Minister for Culture, External Affairs and the Constitution (Michael Russell):

On a point of order, Presiding Officer. I provided notice that I wanted to raise this issue. I thought it necessary to inform the Parliament that, after this morning's debate on the Calman commission and the pressure from members with regard to progress—particularly Tavish Scott's remark on it—at lunch time the Scottish Government lodged in the Scottish Parliament information centre draft orders on the transfer of powers. A section 30 order and a section 63 order are now available for members, and will be available for the Parliament to implement when it chooses to do so. We hope to continue to make progress and I hope that members will now accept that the civil servants, too, are involved in the process, as the whole Parliament should be.

I think that that is more a point of information than a point of order, but it is now on the record.