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The paper on the Danish presidency will be helpful to members for our meeting with the Danish ambassador on 26 June. I suggest that we send out the Europe day paper, as was previously discussed.
The paper on the Danish presidency will be helpful to members for our meeting with the Danish ambassador on 26 June. I suggest that we send out the Europe day paper, as was previously discussed.
There is a trip to London to see the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments. That committee meets on 26 October—a Tuesday—so Alasdair and I will be unavailable then.
If and when the Scotland Act 1998 is reviewed, at some time in the future, one of the changes that should be made is that the constitution of our proceedings should be transferred to us—full stop. I see you, Sir David, as the captain of our team.
—Official Report, Communities Committee, 26 January 2005; c 1688.The purpose of the Parliament is to produce not games of three-dimensional chess, but lucid legislation that meets the objectives that it is intended to meet.
We must recognise the fact that simply bringing in civic studies will not result in people voting at the age of 26, 36 or whatever. The issue is getting them to participate in the democratic process, and a large part of that depends on literacy.
The average UK non-oil deficit for the past 22 years is £26 billion. The average non-oil deficit during Mr McLetchie's party's term in office was £32 billion per year.
Members indicated agreement.Consultative Steering Group Principles Consultative Steering Group Principles Item 7 concerns the Procedures Committee's inquiry into the application of the consultative steering group's principles in the Scottish Parliament. The deadline for submissions is 26 June and this is our last meeting before then.