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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.
Most services are delivered through the voluntary sector and they often use volunteers. When we visited the Hamilton contact centre, the two women on the door were volunteers.
The deaf are just as interested in politics, current affairs and literature as any hearing people. When I was MP for Hamilton, I visited the deaf school, and the children then paid a visit to the House of Commons.