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To ask the Scottish Executive what response time to letters from MSPs should be achieved by the Procurator Fiscal service and what arrangements it is making to ensure that MSPs get timeous replies.
Before we make any decisions about the petition—and to facilitate our hearing the views of the local MSP, who is ill—I would like to hear from the petitioners.
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.
In addition to the committee members and to Dr Sylvia Jackson and Bruce Crawford, who are both present, I understand that several other MSPs intend to join us at various points in our proceedings on the Water Industry (Scotland) Bill.
We have already responded to the letters from Mr McIver, John Home Robertson MSP and Nora Radcliffe MSP and copies have been placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 36395).
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 October 2002
The SPCB is considering ways, in time for the next Parliament, of streamlining the paperwork associated with granting access to parliamentary services for new MSP staff. S1W-30178