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The paper proposes that the committees should take evidence"from the Executive Officials and Non-executive witnesses"at one meeting, which might be quite a lot of evidence to narrow down to one meeting.When we have considered the budget, we might decide to take more evidence from non-Executive witnesses.
There is only one review—the one that has been undertaken by Susan Deacon".—Official Report, 18 January 2001; Vol 10, c 427.The Minister for Health and Community Care has announced the outcome of that review—that there will be another review.
That is our clear policy commitment."—Official Report, House of Commons, Scottish Grand Committee, 10 July 2000; c 32.Suddenly that commitment is torn up.
Although it is inconceivable that an undercover officer would not be told immediately that an authorisation had been cancelled, one can easily envisage circumstances in which the writing and sending of official letters from the police to agents or informants could compromise seriously their security and personal safety.
They, together with Steven Lindsay, from the Scottish Executive solicitors branch, will explain the order. Do the officials wish to make any comments on the order further to what is already in the notes that we have received?
The Speaker's Counsel confirmed at a recent joint meeting that this had been the rule-of-thumb adopted for many years by Whitehall departments, following official guidance of at least 30 years' standing.If that is the backdrop, I would have thought that there is a precedent for what we are trying to achieve.
We have received a great deal of material, which I believe has been circulated to all MSPs. I would like officially to thank the staff of the Scottish Parliament information centre for the high quality of the work that they have produced for us.