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The first is to ask the Scottish Government to explain why the convention that primary legislation does not come into force less than two months after the date on which it is enacted has not been observed in the case of the 2008 act.
I think that we should seek further clarification of exactly how each of the agencies to which we have written is trying to make progress on the issues that have been identified in the petition, so that we will have a better picture than we have had to date. I wonder whether we can use our influence to ask why it will take 26 months to revise the guidelines...
That concludes our consideration of petitions.I remind members that we are considering possible dates for our away day; I ask members to get back to us as soon as possible on that.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether its School Estate Strategy will be published before the end of 2009 and on what date. Yes. The intention now is to publish the School Estate Strategy after the summer recess.