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Some members are less anti-war than others, but all should remember that, if George Bush gets away with his new pre-emptive strike strategy, the future will be the wild west, where we shoot first and ask questions later.
Item in Private Under agenda item 1, I ask members to consider taking item 4—consideration of the committee's forward work programme—in private. Item 4 is a debate on our future inquiry topics and it will involve discussion of individual witnesses.
National Health Service (Dental Charges) (Scotland) Regulations 2003 (SSI 2003/158) The Subordinate Legislation Committee has made comments to the Executive on defective drafting, which the Executive has acknowledged and will take account of in future instruments. No members' comments have been received and no motion to annul has been lodged, so the recomm...
Regulation of Care(Applications and Provision of Advice) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2003(SSI 2003/151) The Subordinate Legislation Committee has made comments to the Executive on defective drafting, which the Executive has acknowledged and will take account of in future instruments. No members' comments have been received and no motion to annul has been lo...
Joint Meeting I invite the committee to agree to meet jointly with the Justice 2 Committee to take evidence on progress to date on the future plans of the Minister for Justice, and to take evidence from Clive Fairweather, Her Majesty's chief inspector of prisons for Scotland, on his annual report.
I have received apologies from Margaret Jamieson.We have two items on the agenda: the draft written agreement between the Parliament and the Executive on the form of accounts and powers of direction, and the future work programme of the committee.
The thoughtful and serious way in which issues were raised and debated at every stage is a credit to the Parliament, the Health Committee and all those involved in the process.
I have questions about the role of the Standards Committee and about the extent to which you have been able to liaise with that committee about any role that it might have in future. How will it be clear to people who might wish to make a complaint about an appointments process that they should go to the commissioner rather than appealing straight to the co...
We are not, at this stage, discussing prospective future inquiries, although the points that have been made could be fed into that debate.I would like to draw together the strands of our discussion so far.
We might want to consider sending more of us to meet people in future. Two seems too small a number, and it would be helpful if one person took overall responsibility for taking notes.The council was keen to emphasise to the Scottish Executive that local authorities are suffering in so far as aspirations and obligations are set at a Scottish level but are n...