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I have apologies from Mike Pringle, who is in Dublin on a fact-finding visit for his proposed environmental levy bill, and from Gordon Jackson, who has a constituency appointment.
Europe Familiarisation Scheme The final item on the agenda is the European Parliament study visit. It will be decided later today, or at some other stage, whether there will be a place for someone from the committee.
I met with the Chinese Consul General, Mr Liu Jingxue on Thursday 11 March, where he raised the issue of the visit by His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet to the Scottish Parliament.
The Corporate Body was responsible for the resources used by the Parliament in supporting the visit to Aberdeen and it will wish to review how the exercise was managed and financed.
However, given that it is 11 o'clock and that the information will go to the press in an hour and a half, I request that committee members be given the information at the same time as the press gets it. I will ensure that you get that detail.
Had the code been available to me a number of years ago, I would have found it extremely beneficial to be able to tell people that I genuinely could not declare my position to them. Councillors get lobbied very heavily on planning applications, and they sometimes get told some amazing stories in relation to those.
Mr Gallie probably knows this better than I do, but Britain chose the option to get people from the new accession states—except Malta and Cyprus, I think—to register when they come here.
Around 1 per cent of self-employed adults in Scotland are estimated to earn their living through crafts. I had the pleasure of visiting the Orkney islands only yesterday, where I saw some excellent examples of such work.