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As far as I know, I certainly have the time available, as I have committed myself to only one week away during the recess. I would like to join the group as well.
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.
I hope that the Mortgage Rights (Scotland) Bill will reach stage 3 before the summer recess. The bill has been promoted for some time, so it will not surprise Cathie Craigie that we have considered the resources that will be required to implement it.
I spent about half a day during the Easter recess reading through the BSE report, which contains evidence that, in the past, Westminster did not always take adequate account of scientific evidence.
As a small nation—now with our own Parliament, back after a recess of 300 years—we are grateful for the acknowledgement of our contribution to what has made Americans great.On our side, I make only one request to the Scots diaspora.
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.
We will need to pull together our views.While we will not produce that report immediately, there is some spare capacity during our first meeting after the recess on Tuesday, 11 January, which would allow us to have another look at this issue.
However, another factor in the process was the long fallow period of parliamentary recess. There is an issue about completing the process before recess but still achieving the rigour that we want.