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Objections have been made to the scheme, which the Council are still attemping to resolve.The question of completion dates, and commencement of construction, is for the councils concerned and not for the Scottish Executive.
We have had a number of discussions to date. Proposals have now been submitted, so the question is the extent to which our discussions with the promoter can change the proposals.
Scotland's special leave to remain scheme, which started in June 2005, has resulted in more than 1,800 successful applications to date. Linda Fabiani asked questions about the various groups.
The minister has every opportunity to lodge amendments that will cause us to support it at a later date but he has a long road to travel before that happens.
The context was that we were revisiting and trying to bring up to date legislation on partnerships, on which the Executive is consulting.We must do what we can.
I do not think that paragraph 6 of our submission claims that there is a conspiracy. It says:"We note that to date only one Baptist Union Minister has been asked to lead time for reflection and no person from Brethren"has been asked.
So the Executive lodged a bill on 8 October, which allowed at most two months of discussions. The recess fell after 8 October and the bureau did not meet to set the timetable for consideration of this bill until after then.