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In certain circumstances, in sensitive cases, even a perception of a conflict of interests can be damaging, and I think that it would have been better to protect the new Lord Advocate from that from the outset.
Planning System (Amenity Woodland) (PE918) Petition PE918, by Bill Lobban on behalf of Dalfaber action group, calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Executive to review the protection that is afforded to amenity woodland in the current planning system with a view to ensuring that the views of local people who enjoy visiting such woodland are...
I have received apologies from Karen Gillon, who will arrive lateāthe other members of the committee are here and no visiting members will attend the meeting, as far as I know.Under agenda item 1, the committee will consider whether to take item 4 in private.
Once again, I remind all members to turn off mobile phones and pagers.Let me just mention that we shall be joined by members of the Basque Government who are visiting the Scottish Parliament. They will appear in the course of the afternoon, and I shall introduce them when they do so.I welcome Brian Main, who is the adviser to the committee.
Jim Hislop is here from the Scottish Executive. He will hope that all his visits to the Education, Culture and Sport Committee are as simple as this one.
To be fair to the Executive, the order was drafted by the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting, which is outwith the Executive's control, but perhaps we should draw the question to the Executive's attention.