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Rail Services (Fife) To ask the Scottish Executive what opportunities there will be to increase rail services to and from Fife under the next rail franchise. (S2O-263) The new franchise will contain a mechanism to enable new services to be introduced into the franchise throughout its life.
As such, it will be welcomed throughout Scotland, but particularly by young people. When I visit schools and receive visits from young people to the Parliament, they often raise animal welfare issues with me.
The committee asked for an explanation of that order-making power and, as a result, two Executive amendments were introduced at stage 2. New subsection 33A(3) states that any order under new section 33 will be subject to the affirmative procedure.