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Holyrood Item 2 concerns the new Scottish Parliament building. When we produced our report on the Holyrood project, I asked the clerk whether he would approach the conveners group with the aim of securing a debate on the report in Parliament.
In considering the proposal for a protection from abuse bill, the committee should be mindful that it would create a new remedy and therefore new candidates for legal aid.
If you wait six weeks, you will be into the new financial year. If John Spencely's report drifts—and I think that it will have to—you will have to wait until the new Auditor General takes up his post on 1 April.
Repayment of Student Loans (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007(SSI 2007/159) The Subordinate Legislation Committee considered SSI 2007/159 on 13 March and sought clarification of why new regulation 11(2) of the Repayment of Student Loans (Scotland) Regulations 2000 appears to sub-delegate to Scottish ministers powers to specify and require information.
Repayment of Student Loans (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007 (SSI 2007/159) I think that we need clarification on why new regulation 11(2) of the Repayment of Student Loans (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (SSI 2000/110)—which is inserted by regulation 6 of the amendment regulations—appears to sub-delegate to Scottish ministers powers to specify and require...
Members will have noticed that we have almost 30 new instruments before us. I accept that there are no substantive points on a lot of them; however, one or two had to be taken away and relaid.
We asked the Executive—as we always do in such cases—whether it has any plans for consolidation. It has explained that the new local government pension scheme is currently being progressed and therefore it does not consider it appropriate to consolidate the principal regulations at this time.
I have received apologies from Elaine Smith.Agenda item 1 is a declaration of interests by new committee members. I welcome Jamie McGrigor and John Swinburne to the committee and ask them whether they have any interests to declare.
Interests We have a new committee member, Andrew Welsh, who will be familiar to some of those present for the obvious reason that he was the convener of the Audit Committee in session 1.