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We have not had the reply for the period of time that the date on it implies. We know to our cost that that sometimes happens when we get letters from ministers.
I want to clarify that the committee has taken no such decision to date. It has been the committee's normal practice to make decisions and then for any requests to ministers or anyone else to be put in my name, as convener, on behalf of all committee members.
Depending on the Public Petitions Committee's decision, the petition would be a worthy candidate for further work at a later date. I agree that this is a worthy petition on a serious issue.
Is it September? There is no definite date, but when the committee was in Barcelona, it agreed that the event should be held in the autumn, so the suggestion that has been made might be a possibility if the committee is so minded.