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We should pass the petition to the European Committee, which can get in touch with the ministers, seek their views and get on with an inquiry without having to wait for us to receive a response and refer the petition perhaps a month from now.
That cuts down on some of the difficulties, because if a lead committee were to get an instrument about which it was unsure, it would have to refer it back to the Subordinate Legislation Committee, which is time consuming.
In our view, it is an important point of principle that the Parliament should get this statement and should get it promptly.The statement should not wait on a Westminster timetable, as it is not about Westminster.
We will proceed with option 1 in order to get some early input. As I said, the matter that we are discussing arose as a result of the child protection inquiry.
With a population of 120,000 to 130,000, it is difficult to get the Borders scheme to the top of the list, because other schemes, involving larger populations, somehow get in ahead of it.
Under nationalised industries' external finance, Caledonian MacBrayne will get increases of £3.6 million on P4 and £791,000 on P5, while there will be a shortfall on PZ.