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As you will understand, we are just trying to get the Executive's view on record. Does the Executive think that revising the grounds of jurisdiction in the new Brussels 2 regulation is a good idea?
That was the shopping list with which COSLA approached the Executive and to which I agreed through discussion with COSLA. We should get the local government context right.
There may have been an overlap between the production of the responses that we are considering today and our saying that we liked the new style of response, but we need to get a bit sharper about how Executive departments communicate back to us.
It is of interest and it is overdue, but I am not sure what legal aspects of the bill we might have to consider. Any bill that creates significant new offences tends to get referred to the justice committees.
We also understand the urgency because of the traffic congestion in Edinburgh.People in Midlothian want to get out of their cars and get on to the railway.