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I move that we ask for additional written evidence and take no further oral evidence. I am struck by the new-found resistance to the taking of oral evidence since the new year.
The Sun said that the First Minister"shied away from a total ban."The Evening News said that the First Minister"has ruled out suggestions that could lead to a complete ban on smoking in public places."
The committee is concerned that, although Mr Monteith issued his news statement with an embargo that matched that of his committee's news embargo, and although he claims that the media broke the embargo, his doing so was clearly in defiance of advice that was given to members on 5 June by the head of the private bill...
I thought it worth mentioning, even though the issue is a pre-council agenda item rather than one for post-council scrutiny. It is interesting that the new member states seem to be performing better.
On the pre-council agenda relating to the agriculture and fisheries council, there is the suggestion of possible political agreement on a new rural development regulation, which has an impact on less favoured areas.
Apart from all its other benefits, the new treaty recognises more than ever before the European regions with legislative power and proposes ways in which they will be more comprehensively involved in the business of the European Union.
Is the minister aware that, in one day, Forest Enterprise slaughtered 97 deer on the Cobbler in Argyll forest park, which itself is within the new Loch Lomond and the Trossachs national park?