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I am sure that Lord Fraser will study your suggestion about private access with some interest—as, indeed, will the BBC.To date, I have not received any request from Lord Fraser to assist in this matter.
The background papers on the petition will bring you up to date with the situation. I have had a number of letters from groups in a similar position to that of the Carbeth hutters, in that they have semi-permanent homes and their landlord has offered renewal of their lease at extremely high terms that they are unable to meet.
All members seem to want more information and to be up to date. Therefore, I suggest that, as with the previous petition, we should ask the minister to answer our concerns.
If we are writing to the minister, we could give him notice that we will require him to come on a particular date and that he should bring the latest information from whoever he has had to deal with in Westminster.
Let us agree Wednesday next week as a provisional date for our next meeting. I could rearrange my schedule for Wednesday next week, but Tuesday would be much more difficult.
We have done the right thing by examining at least one of the regulations—the one on parental responsibility—with the assistance of Peter Beaton, who has given us an up-to-date note on the discussions on the matter.
When has the meeting with the minister and the head of planning been scheduled for? The date has not been fixed yet. The clerks and the minister are negotiating.
It would be difficult for a reporter to complete the work in the time that is available, but we could raise the issue with the Executive. At a subsequent date, we could refer all the correspondence to the Public Petitions Committee, which would then refer the petition and the accompanying correspondence to the relevant committee after the election.