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I hope that, after having endured—to use the words of my colleague—the previous debate, the minister will add Wanlockhead to her list of places to visit, if she has not visited it already.
Before we go into private session, I remind everyone that the next meeting of the committee will be on 26 October, by which time some of us will have had the advantage of visiting Sweden and Finland to find out about child care and early years provision in those countries.
The dates that have been suggested—to coincide with meetings of the Bundestag Petitions Committee—are 24 to 26 September or 8 to 10 October. The visit would include an examination of the way in which the Bundestag operates and, possibly, visits to two Länder petitions committe...
I think that it is important to differentiate between the two. The Observer's original claim on 26 September was that—presumably by implication—not just Kevin Reid and Alex Barr but other members of staff at Beattie Media were in regular contact with me.
Last week, I met Jim Hastie from Queen's Park FC, who was concerned about our delay in publishing our report on Hampden, because of the difficulties that that might cause.