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The members of the committee then have the opportunity to question me in public on it, and my answers are in the Official Report. The questioning of accountable officers is in public and the final report is in public.
It is the democratic right of CND and MSPs who are that way minded, which I understand excludes the official Labour party, to pursue their aims through booking committee rooms and having meetings in the Parliament.
The only other matter that was raised was whether the definition of "official examination" was intended to be disjunctive or conjunctive.As a former English teacher, Ian, do you have any comment on that?
It is the role of local authority planning officials to act as mediators and to strike a balance when developments are proposed by recognising what is important to the local community.