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Exemptions can be made—that is what the whisky industry is looking for, and the paper industry in Scotland is in a similar position. There will be a long and on-going debate on this issue but I think that we have provided a useful start.
Exemptions can be made—that is what the whisky industry is looking for, and the paper industry in Scotland is in a similar position. There will be a long and on-going debate on this issue but I think that we have provided a useful start.
PE333 is from Charles Douglas, on behalf of the Humanist Society of Scotland. The committee considered the petition at a previous meeting, when we requested more information on it.
Cathy Peattie's assessment is fair, but there is a further dimension to the issue, to which the clerks' paper draws attention.We do not want the Parliament to be seen as the final court of appeal on every school closure in Scotland. That would be unreasonable and it is not our position to do that.
On the question of public safety, we must be absolutely clear that the independent advice from the Food Standards Agency Scotland is that what has happened does not give rise to a health risk in the food chain.