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The report will be made public—we would expect all the reports from this work to be made public—but I would expect that to happen a week beyond the date given. Tuesday next week is the date for the draft report.
The Scottish Government’s letter says that it is waiting for clarification of the impact of legal issues and that it had hoped to have reported by now, but hopes to be able to do so by the summer recess. In that case, it would be sensible to postpone any further consideration until just before the summer recess when,...
The Coronavirus (Scotland) Acts (Amendment of Expiry Dates) Regulations 2021 were also laid in draft at the same time to provide for the extension of the Acts to this date.
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Date answered:
29 October 2020
I also engaged with political parties on the Information Sharing Bill over a range of dates, however we do not hold a list of dates on which such routine, informal conversations took place.
Following further strikes on Thursday 23 June, Saturday 25 June and Sunday 26 June the remaining dates are Sundays 3, 10 and 17 July with additional action short of strike action on a number of dates through June and July.
I am expecting it to report sometime after the summer recess. So this committee, certainly for the period into the early part of next term after the summer, will deal with finance and not the constitution.