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Joint working groups could perhaps be established among authorities without requiring a new bureaucracy. That sort of arrangement can work on a voluntary basis.
Members will recall that we considered the regulations on 26 September. We had two main concerns about defective drafting and ambiguity of specific parts of the regulations, which had been picked up by the Subordinate Legislation Committee.
The regulations come into force on 8 May 2000 and the time limit for parliamentary action is 26 May 2000. Any MSP may table a motion to propose to the lead committee to annul the regulations.
The Conservatives would take more and more power to the centre; we want the opposite of that. We want to take new approaches, such as the new community schools, and we want new approaches on alternatives to exclusion.
Items in Private I welcome committee members, visiting members, members of the press and members of the public to the ninth meeting in 2006 of the Environment and Rural Development Committee.
The second is a response from the minister about his visit to Craiginches prison. I suggest that in the first instance we send the response to Richard Lochhead for comment.
I am sure that they will find their visit educational.Following the point of order that was raised last week, I am keen to get through more questions and answers than we have done in the past couple of weeks.