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We will discuss our supplementary stage 1 report on the Environmental Levy on Plastic Bags (Scotland) Bill in private, so I invite the official report and broadcasting staff to leave.
West Lothian Council has also written to me. My officials are due to meet West Lothian Council officials to discuss the issues that have arisen.I am sympathetic to the points that Mary Mulligan and Fiona Hyslop have made.
I welcome Tom McCabe, the Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care, and one official. I will explain to members at which point officials may take part in the meeting.
Donald Gorrie raised the valid point that he lodged a paper at that meeting, which, unlike other papers that are presented as official papers for the committee's business, is not on record.
Are you talking about the difference between £533 million and £398 million? The official was talking about the difference between £533 million and £201 million.
There will be hiccups—there always are—but I hope that we will sort those out before the bill becomes an act.We now move into private session. I ask the public, the official reporters and others to leave.
This is a national problem—a national formula."—Official Report, Public Petitions Committee, 20 June 2000; c 501.The petition relates to a specific local situation, and that should not surprise us, as it comes from a local community.
That substantial list should keep us well occupied and off the streets for the next few years.We will be assisted in our work by a number of officials, and some of them are with us today.