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At a development session on 31 January and 1 February, the board will review the progress to date on the redesign work and the work on developing the capability and capacity to deliver the new design.
The meetings cannot take place without us, which probably means that we have some influence on the dates, but it has proved to be difficult to set dates.
I expect that ministers will want to announce in due course when the consultation will be and what form it will take. So there is no planned date for such an announcement. Ministers have not yet given a date for such an announcement.
It is proposed that we report the order to the lead committee and to the Parliament on the following grounds: that the Scottish Government has admitted that there was a failure to expedite the publication of the order, which was not published until after it came into force, and has indicated that it will work with the office of the Queen's printer for Scotland to ensure that that does not happen again; that the Committee's view is that it would have been possible to specify the date...
Members also now have a copy of a letter from Police Scotland to Mr Robert Forrester, dated this Monday. Can I have your comments on how we take the petition forward and on whether you wish to close it?
I understand that one of the original listeners—Jennifer Meiklejohn—is with us today and that she still receives her recording with great anticipation.Recordings are taken mostly from the Edinburgh Evening News and aim to keep blind and partially sighted people up to date with what goes on in their city and around Lothian.
I could hardly pre-empt and summarise all those views, but I can tell members that the discussions were insightful and well informed and they will play an important part in our consideration of the way forward. Before the summer recess, we plan to publish a report summarising the findings from the consultation events, but members should be reassured that th...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government further to the answer to question S4W-27774 by Jamie Hepburn on 22 October 2015, on what date it will publish the follow-up to the report, and for what reason it was not published in the summer.