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In response to a question from John Home Robertson, who was impressed with the work that was undertaken at a school in his constituency, I have asked my officials to look further into the matter.
I said that we would do our best to reach a decision on the matter as soon as possible, and I will ensure that our officials pursue the issue with haste.
We will let the department know that we would like to have an update after the forum meeting. We will include the Official Report of today's meeting so that the department is aware of Andrew Welsh's comments about the absence of gobbledegook, with which we all concur.
The third and final item in the report is the response from the Scottish Executive to points that members made when they considered the pre and post-EU council scrutiny documents at our meeting two weeks ago. I thank Executive officials for responding so quickly. Do members have comments?
Significant funding has been provided for the park-and-ride service at Hermiston, which will be opened officially tomorrow, in addition to the west Edinburgh busway system, Edinburgh crossrail, the Edinburgh airport rail link and the tram network.
We agreed earlier that agenda item 5 will be taken in private, so I bring the public part of today's meeting to a close and ask any remaining members of the public and the official report staff to withdraw. Meeting continued in private until 13:19.
Has the minister discussed the issue with Her Majesty's Government in London, either recently or further in the past? My officials and I discuss environmental concerns with our opposite numbers in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs regularly and the proposed levy has been discussed.
I have already discussed the matter with the new Secretary of State for Scotland since his appointment last week, and I can assure Shona Robison that my officials and I are doing all that we can to continue discussions and negotiations with the UK Government.
She said:"I suggest that First Minister's question time is the correct vehicle for that."—Official Report, 11 June 2003; c 563.The early edition of today's Edinburgh Evening News—under the front-page headline "Jack Unveils Parly Inquiry"—goes into specific detail about what is likely to be announced.
I have nothing that has to be registered officially in the register of members' interests but, to be on the safe side, I will say that I am a member of the GMB, which has a substantial membership in local government.