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Responses have been received, together with a letter from Fergus Ewing MSP, who supports the petition. The Executive has indicated that, as an interim measure, it will issue new guidance on the matter following discussions with local authorities.
There was good participation from various organisations, including voluntary agencies from throughout Scotland and young people from some of our schools.That exercise would be worth repeating because it would not be only MSPs sitting round a committee table trying to come to a conclusion as to what our collective view should be.
In the absence of that, I do not think that the committee should go on a fishing expedition to see what we can discover. MSPs have declared that they are members of the freemasons, but their membership does not matter in relation to their position as elected public officials.
It is an ideal subject for a member's bill and has received support from all the MSPs in Mid Scotland and Fife. The bill reinstates to the University of St Andrews the ability to award a postgraduate degree in research in medicine.
As I said, we would work on a voluntary basis. A group of two or three MSPs who were available on a certain day could go to an area that was geographically close to them, for example.
As I said, we would work on a voluntary basis. A group of two or three MSPs who were available on a certain day could go to an area that was geographically close to them, for example.
At Westminster, such an amendment is in a different category and is treated rather differently.In consequence, it does not make sense to allow MSPs to divide on the question on the section because that would give them two procedural mechanisms to achieve the same result.
There is no doubt that it has attracted significant public interest. MSPs who are not members of the committee may have genuine questions to ask arising from the report.