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Education Committee
29 October 2003
7th Meeting, 2003
The Committee will meet at 9.30 am in Committee Room 2
1. Item in private: The Committee will consider
whether to take item 4 in private.
2. Youth organisations: The Committee will
consider further the work of youth organisations.
3. Mainstreaming equality: The Committee will
consider a letter from the Convener of the Equal Opportunities Committee
on mainstreaming equality.
4. Budget process 2004-2005: The Committee
will consider a draft report.
Environment and Rural Development Committee
29 October 2003
9th Meeting, 2003
The Committee will meet at 10.00 am in The Chamber, Assembly Hall,
The Mound, Edinburgh
1. Nature Conservation (Scotland) Bill: The
Committee will take evidence at Stage 1 from-
Councillor Alison Hay, Malcolm Muir and James Fowlie, COSLA
Jo Lenthall, Scotland LBAP Project Officer, Scottish Biodiversity
Forum
Professor Jeff Maxwell, Royal Society of Edinburgh
Professor Colin T Reid, UK Environmental Law Association.
2. National Waste Plan inquiry (in private): The
Committee will consider a draft report.
3. Budget process 2004-05 (in private): The
Committee will consider a draft report.
Public Petitions Committee
29 October 2003
6th Meeting, 2003
The Committee will meet at 10.00 am in Committee Room 1
1. New Petitions: The Committee will consider
the following new petitions-
PE593: Alleged exploitation of men and children
in divorce actions.
PE625: Expert witness system in Scottish courts.
PE632: Sale of heritable property authorised by
the courts.
PE633: Alleged discrimination against fathers
by the courts, social services etc.
PE635: Procedures for questioning child witnesses
in court. Duncan Shields will make a presentation in support of
petitions PE593-PE635.
PE672: Handling of the previous Justice 1 Committee's
Regulation of the Legal Profession Inquiry. Duncan Shields, George
Farquhar and Ann Mallaby will make a presentation in support of
this petition.
PE652: The Dunblane Public Inquiry. William Burns
will make a presentation in support of this petition.
PE658: Proposal to reduce the qualifying age for
voting in Scotland. Daniel Donaldson and Jacqueline Hughes will
make a presentation in support of this petition.
PE660: Proposal for a competition to compose a
national anthem for Scotland. George Reid will make a presentation
in support of this petition.
PE657: Proposed Education (Additional Support
for Learning) (Scotland) Bill.
PE659: Proposal for a review of sentencing policy
on violent crime.
2. Current Petitions: The Committee will further
consider the following current petitions-
PE541 & PE543: Development of landfill sites.
PE557: Scottish Prison Service staff social and
recreational facilities.
PE571: Implementation of Complementary Alternative
Medicine.
PE585: Siting of heroin and methadone detoxification
clinics.
PE615: Funding of renewable energy projects.
PE626: Self-defence for teenage girls.
PE671: Detention of children at Dungavel detention
centre.
3. Inadmissible Petitions: The Committee will
be invited to agree the recommendations contained
in a paper on inadmissible petitions.
4. Anonymous submission of petitions: The Committee
will consider a paper from the Clerk.
5. Convener's report.
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