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To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Executive has requested a review of the concordat between HM Treasury and the Executive, and if so, on what date. The ScottishGovernment has not requested such a review.
Has the issue been flagged up in any of your discussions with UK ministers or has it simply been ignored to date? That issue has not cropped up in any discussions or correspondence that I have had with UK ministers.
I am taking that entirely personally and will take it up with them at a later date. Fair trade is a very important issue to Fiona McLeod, whom I have known for a very long time.
In other words, if a member state has decided to privatise certain services and, at a later date, wishes to bring them back into the public domain—renationalise them—it is free to do so.
It would be interesting to hear a little bit more about how you have used the commission’s powers, particularly to conduct inquiries into public authorities’ policies and practices. To date, we have not done that, but I cannot speak on behalf of my successor about what will happen after I leave.
Amendment 88 refers to “any other enactment”, which would include United Kingdom legislation, but the Scottish Government may not be in the best position to provide up-to-date information on such legislation.
I will consider the matter and come back to Mr Gray on it so that he can keep Grace up to date on the progress, because her campaign has undeniably made significant progress.
At the time of drafting, I did not put the commencement date in the hands of the ministers as I was not clear at that stage whether the Scottish Government would support the bill.