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A minute is not long, so I will cover the ground as fast as I can.I want to read from a typical newspaper article. The article is dated 5 April and is headed, "Legal mafia is failing public".
Once the consultation is complete, we will finalise the bill and introduce it formally to Parliament. Our target date is the middle of May.I hope that that was a useful outline of the structure of what we are doing, the key principles of the bill, and where we go from here.
The current evidence indicates a healthy benefit to cost ratio.Before the summer recess, the promoter will have completed a full update of the outline business case for the tram project and presented the results to Transport Scotland.
Drugs destroy lives and young people's aspirations, impoverish people and harm their physical and mental health.During the February recess, I had a meeting in Parliament with 20 young people on a Fairbridge scheme.
I am sure that members will read the bill in detail over the Christmas recess. It is on my list. I invite Paul Cackette to introduce the team and to outline its members' respective roles.
The Conservation of Salmon (Esk Salmon Fishery District) Regulations 2005 were originally scheduled to be dealt with by the committee before the February recess, but because Andrew Welsh lodged a motion to annul, we were given more time to bring it to today's meeting.
At present, the business situation is not good. Manufacturing is in recession. The service sector is just about holding on, but the outlook is not positive.
We have not yet produced an official response to the bill although, since the Parliament's Christmas recess, we have been in discussion with officials.