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We will discuss the draft report on 1 March and—I hope—reach an agreement on the report by 7 March.I appreciate that that is a tight schedule, but we must be ambitious in terms of getting through the committee's work.
When phase 2 of the tracking system is implemented, we expect fewer questions to be outstanding for long periods. Our latest information shows that, as at the close of business yesterday, there were 197 PQs for which answers were still outstanding.
·the Disability Discrimination Bill – to put Scotland on the same footing as the rest of the UK on new public sector duty to promote equality of opportunity for disabled people.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 February 2003
The UK welcomed the opportunity to update the rules, while recognising that careful consideration of the issues would be needed before new strategies could be put in place.
Sulphur Content of Liquid Fuels (Scotland) Regulations 2007 (SSI 2007/27) Members will remember that we asked the Executive why regulations for England and Wales defined "new plant" and "existing plant" whereas the regulations for Scotland did not.
Item 1 is to ask members of the committee if they agree that we should deal with item 6, our summation of evidence on the Christmas Day and New Year's Day Trading (Scotland) Bill, in private, as has been the custom.
Motions moved, That the Parliament agrees that the Justice 2 Committee be designated as the lead committee in consideration of the Christmas Day and New Year's Day Trading (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1.
I support the regulations, but it would be helpful if we monitored progress on the negotiations in the House of Commons on how the pension scheme will apply to new starts. That is a valid point that the Parliament will have to consider soon when it looks at public sector pension schemes.