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Convener's Report The final agenda item is to inform the committee that Robin Cook is bringing the Select Committee on Modernisation of the House of Commons on a visit to the Scottish Parliament on 4 March.
However, I do not share your view that councillors are the same as MSPs and MPs. COSLA's survey found that only 26 per cent of councillors considered themselves to be full time.
I was driving at whether the post would be a new function requiring new personnel and new costs or whether similar work is being done just now, although not as comprehensively.
Committees have sometimes consulted at stage 2, but the rule should be that they must consult if significant new proposals are made or if, even though the proposal is not new, the mechanism for achieving it is new.