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Some of you might have attended the launch, which took place in this room the week before the recess. Its principal aim is to keep the Scottish Parliament informed of the views of learning-disabled people.
To ask the Scottish Executive what meetings it held over the Parliament's summer recess with representatives of the National Farmers Union of Scotland and what issues were discussed.
In the first meeting of Parliament after the summer recess last year we debated health and we are debating health in the last meeting of Parliament before this summer recess.
I am disappointed, from the point of view that we were ready to come back after recess and start work on the bill, given that we have done many months' preparatory work.
Committee reports
Date published:
30 September 2025
The Committee had intended to consider a draft report in April 2025, on Parliament's return from Easter recess. However, the Committee agreed to delay consideration of a draft report in light of the issuing of the Supreme Court's judgment in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers on 16 April 2025.
We agreed to make the request because there was another extreme peak in instruments being laid before the summer recess and we thought that there was potential for similar problems to arise before dissolution.
To be helpful to the Minister for Parliamentary Business's office, I suggest that we co-operate with trying to get stage 1 of the bill completed before the summer recess. We have already been through the vast bulk of evidence that could come before us on this issue.
Interests I open the first meeting of the Local Government and Transport Committee after the recess—I hope that members managed to relax some over the summer.