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We have plenty of time for that, and the committee can be involved in the process over the recess if necessary.My view in principle remains that, if a body wishes to regulate, it should set up its own guarantee fund arrangement.
If members have no objections, I suggest that we take the bid forward. Are those the dates? Yes. The dates are set. I advise members to put them in their diaries.
If not, I take it that members are agreed that, as I have proposed, we should continue our consideration of the issue after the recess. I encourage members to consider the recommendations in detail over the recess, during which I am sure everyone will be working very hard.
We should consider having an away day to discuss fully the matters in the paper and our work programme either in the week before the recess or immediately after the recess ends.
However, on 27 June, the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning had said:"We deliberately never state timeframes and say, ‘This will be delivered by a certain date,' … I do not want to give an end date".
I expect that we will deal with the bill substantively in the autumn, after the summer recess. The minister told me last week that the bill would be introduced before the summer recess to allow the Health Committee to take a view on where to go with it.
For the briefing to be meaningful to the committee it will have to be in the hands of the clerks the Wednesday before we return from the recess, so that it can be posted to members.
It meets weekly when Parliament is sitting (there are recesses when the Parliament does not sit in February, July, August, October and December), and it is challenging for committees to meet outwith set meeting times, both because of restrictions of when committees can meet related to Chamber business, and because MSPs own need to balance committee work wit...
It is an old trick that can be well deployed—although not particularly well these days. So, if I get my dates right, it was on 13 December that the phone calls first came to light.We gave clarification to the news media on the basis of the two telephone calls and we gave it very quickly.