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Registration of Fish Farming and Shellfish Farming Businesses Amendment (Scotland) Order 2002 (SSI 2002/193)Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (Scotland) Amendment (No 2) Regulations 2002 (SSI 2002/196) Item 1 concerns four Scottish statutory instruments, which are subject to negative procedure.
We have now received a response from the Executive, which points out that the adoption policy review will not address the issues that the petition raises, because the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978 already requires that when reaching a decision relating to the adoption of a child"a court or adoption agency shall have regard so far as is practicable to the chi...
I agree that both those matters are important in West Lothian, as they are elsewhere in Scotland. A key lesson to be learned from the events of the past year in West Lothian is that the job market of central Scotland has become more flexible and involves more travel.
I think that we could find a common position on certain developments in Scotland. The other difficulty is that if we were to give evidence on behalf of the committee, we would have to report to the Scottish Parliament before reporting to Westminster.
We are pleased to be here today, because we believe strongly in taking the Parliament round Scotland to hear views directly. We had some interesting discussions last night and this morning on issues related to our work as a committee.
Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (SSI 2001/337) The second instrument is SSI 337, the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2001.
I suggest that the committee request comments from the Executive on the issues that are raised in the petition and refer to the implementation of relevant provisions in the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001, particularly quality contract schemes.
The minister's predecessor, Sam Galbraith, once described the proposal to exempt Scotland's water and sewerage industry from the terms of the Competition Act 1998 as"very difficult, if not impossible".