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Why have draft regulations subject to annulment in 40 days, when the Executive could have laid regulations subject to the negative procedure, which would have allowed annulment in 40 days? I find that odd. Are there many such instruments? I gather that there are only a few of them.
The fact that we have received so many petitions so far is a good milestone for the committee and for the public petitioning process.We have received apologies from Winnie Ewing, who is fogbound at Inverness airport.
Is it in order that, prior to the commencement of the stage 1 debate on the Housing (Scotland) Bill, so many points of order were taken that the debate was cut down?
We could do with some consistency of approach.The other question is whether, as a general principle, we want many acts on devolved matters to be initiated by Westminster.
Should we take away the human touch from some public services and simply tell people to hit a touch-screen? Many of the old, the fragile and the frail, and many who just do not know the technology, are at a loss.