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Consultations on regulations were held between March and June of 2005. Joint inspections were introduced in September this year and there is a commitment to complete joint inspections for the whole of England—with a population 10 times the size of Scotland's—by September 2008.
Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to find a date that would suit everybody and still allow us to have the briefing session before 1 March, which is when we start taking evidence.
The European Communities (Lawyer's Practice) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2004 state:"Regulation 1(2) … shall apply to a relevant lawyer with the following modifications … (c) for ‘22nd November 2000', wherever it occurs, there shall be substituted ‘16th March 2005'".I do not have the faintest idea what that means and neither does anybody else.
However, due to pressure on the parliamentary timetable in the final months of the first session, it was not possible to introduce the bill, although the committee published a draft bill in March 2003. When the second parliamentary session commenced in 2003, we agreed to review the provisions of the draft bill.
That is a good point.I point out that a regulation on parental responsibility comes into force in March 2005, which in part deals with the question of parental responsibility and access.
Our final main point is that our census of older people on waiting lists for care homes and home care, in 31 March 2003, showed that almost every council has a waiting list for care home places and almost two thirds have a waiting list for home care.
The committee and Audit Scotland have carried out significant activity in the area over the years. Our report was published on 18 March and we considered a response from the Executive at our meeting on 8 June.
However, as was made clear when the First Minister wrote to party leaders in March, although the method of voting for Scottish local government will of course be a consideration, the commission's focus will be on parliamentary elections, and in particular on the method of voting in Scottish parliamentary elections.We will be interested to hear what the comm...
I invite the Auditor General to give the committee a briefing on the report "Individual Learning Accounts in Scotland". In March, I provided the previous Audit Committee with a briefing on the report, but I thought that it would be useful to revisit that briefing and summarise some of the key messages in the report.
Thirty years ago, he wrote:"To resolve the environmental crisis, we shall need to forgo, at last, the luxury of tolerating poverty, racial discrimination and war. In our unwitting march toward ecological suicide we have run out of options."