Finance Committee, 13 Mar 2001

Meeting date: Tuesday, March 13, 2001

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Convention Rights (Compliance) (Scotland) Bill

Item 3 is consideration of the financial aspects of the Convention Rights (Compliance) (Scotland) Bill. The financial memorandum is right at the end of the explanatory notes, and is rather thinner than the memorandums that we have been used to. Very little additional expenditure is involved, and that which there is relates mainly to the sentence and release of life prisoners.

The financial memorandum is thinner, but it is comprehensive. I do not think that there is anything about it that we need to highlight.

I did not use "thinner" in a pejorative sense.

"Thinner" is not pejorative in my view.

Well, we have used it pejoratively on previous occasions, with regard to the amount of information that has been made available to us. The information in this memorandum seems to inform us adequately of the bill's financial implications.

If there are no further comments, I propose that we simply agree that a financial resolution is required for the Convention Rights (Compliance) (Scotland) Bill.

Members indicated agreement.