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New Petitions I seek the committee's agreement to amend the order of the petitions this morning. A number of MSPs would like to comment on one of our petitions.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidelines, if any, it has issued to its employees on meeting with MSPs. Guidance on meeting with MSPs was issued to Scottish Executive staff in September.
I am sympathetic to that too, but the organisation needs to be funded first because it is surviving on what it can raise through benefits.As individual MSPs, we should do what we can to support the organisation to find its way through the funding streams—we all know how difficult that can be.
Subordinate legislation will not come here, but will go directly to the European Committee, which, apparently, is meeting in July. Any MSP is free to attend that committee's meetings.As convener, I briefly canvassed the anticipated volume of work.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 February 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will in future ensure that all MSPs receive details of announcements on spending prior to them being released to the press.