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Members indicated agreement.Official Feed and Food Controls (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (SSI 2005/616) Official Feed and Food Controls (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (SSI 2005/616) We asked the Executive several questions and we have its response.
First, we expressed concern about whether regulation 5(2) meets the requirement that vaccination must be carried out"under the supervision of an official veterinarian of the competent authorities",which was imposed by Commission decision 2005/744/EC.The Executive explains that ministers are required to take advice from the chief veterinary officer and that ...
According to the answers that have been received so far, the promoter envisages that that will be dealt with at a later stage, but we think that it should clarify why it cannot be dealt with now; it would be helpful to seek that clarification. For the benefit of the Official Report, will you tell us what CETM stands for?
As the committee's legal advice is not in the public domain we should perhaps say for the Official Report that one point of doubt is whether the regulations are intra vires, while another is whether they raise a devolution issue.
Although that is what usually happens, the explanatory note does not make that officially clear. As a result, we should ask whether the Executive intends to do so.
I recall a question time last April when he commented that I had a "pawky manner", which"occasionally suggests something from Trollope."—Official Report, 6 April 2000; Vol 5, c 1457.As I sat in my seat thinking of a response, I knew only two things.
I ask everyone in the room, whether they are members of the committee, clerks, official reporters or journalists, to ensure that their mobile phones are switched off and that their pagers are programmed to vibrate rather than to bleep.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what events its officials or representatives have attended where Serco was also represented; what the content was of any discussions that took place between it and Serco at these events, and what the outcome was of any such discussions.