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I am keen that we do not lose this work to the recess, but I have a couple of issues to raise and I do not think that we can do them justice in the time available.
Health and Sport Committee 06 September 2016 Health and Sport Committee 06 September 2016Decision on Taking Business in Private Decision on Taking Business in Private Good morning everyone and welcome back after the summer recess. This is the third meeting in 2016 of the Health and Sport Committee in the Scottish Parliament’s fifth session.
Colleagues will therefore understand why I was perplexed, during a summer recess visit to my son’s house in Aboyne in Aberdeenshire, by what I read in a letter to him from the local Conservative member of Parliament, Andrew Bowie.
However, many witnesses and respondents to the call for evidence talked about the lack of a commencement date in the bill and the need for that date to be clear.