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Responses have been circulated.The Local Government and Transport Committee is in the middle of the inquiry that was proposed and has made enjoyable visits to parts of Scotland to examine freight transport.
More immediately, I remind members that our visit to Reliance awaits us next Monday, when members will be in varying degrees of exhaustion and post-election recovery.
Before I close the meeting, I remind the committee that tomorrow's private meeting to discuss the final draft of the report into regional development funding will take place at 10.30 on the fifth floor of Parliament headquarters.Finally, it is very important that members attend the reception at 6 pm this evening at the Scottish Council for Development and Industry's offices in Chester Street to mark the visit...
All committees should be considering such a good and useful proposal for the following years; however, I hope that we can occasionally go to other countries, instead of being visited by parliamentarians from other countries.
Following their presentation and after they leave us, I ask committee members to remain for 10 or 15 minutes so that we can go through some housekeeping matters such as the visits to schools and meetings after the recess: please spare some time to do that.
John Scott is tempting me with a little mention of Arran—he is trying to get me onside. I regret not having been able to visit the farmers market here in the Parliament last night, because of other business.
That will not take long.I draw the First Minister's attention to the fact that, today, Tony Blair is making one of his rare visits to Scotland—indeed, they are almost as rare as the First Minister's visits to hospitals.