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He has said that he will communicate with the Home Secretary. Will he stress to her that new legislation is necessary, regardless of whether Scotland acts as a pilot area?
Will that be the pattern for the future? I am not sure. This is a new approach from the Government. It is not the normal way in which it would address such an issue—it would normally have laid the instrument—but I think that it is taking this approach partly because the cabinet secretary discussed the matter with us at the committee's away day.
When I look around the country, I am impressed by the extent to which local authorities have seized the opportunity to invest in public services, to develop new public services and to enhance the way in which we support members of the public.
I draw the cabinet secretary's attention to the way in which the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen are being merged to form a new organisation, creative Scotland.
Cross-party Groups Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee's first meeting of the year. Happy new year to everybody.Agenda item 1 is on cross-party groups.
We will say that we do not know whether the conclusions will fit in with the capital resources that will obviously be available in the new Scotland for whatever we want.
Will the minister assure us that the upcoming reform of the law on rape will take those findings into account? Will she also ensure that new legislation addresses questioning on sexual history and character?
During the past few weeks, we have seen the new leader of the Labour Party divorce her policy from that of the acting leader and welcome our proposal that will bring prisons back into the public sector instead of taking the prison service down the PPP route.