Scottish Register of Tartans Bill

The Scottish Register of Tartans Bill completed Stage 3 and was passed by Parliament, after debate on Thursday 9 October 2008. Further information can be found on the committee home page. A copy of the Official Report can be found here.

The Scottish Register of Tartans Bill home page can be found here.

Tourism inquiry

The Committee has now completed its inquiry into the feasibility of achieving 50% growth in tourist revenue by 2015. Further information can be found on the inquiry home page. A copy of the report can be found here.

The Scottish Government's response to the Committee report can be found here.

The debate on tourism took place in the Chamber on Thursday 18 May 2008. The Official Report of the debate can be found here.

The Energy Technologies Institution

The Committee published its report into the Energy Technologies Institute on Tuesday 1 July 2008.

Budget

The Scottish Government published its Draft Budget for 2008-09 in November. The Committee took evidence on the areas within its remit and reported to the Finance Committee in December 2007. Copy of the report can be found here.

Petitions

The following petitions were referred to the Committee. At its meeting on 19 December 2007 after correspondence from the Scottish Government the Committee closed both petitions.

• Petition 837 – Fitting of small scale energy generation equipment
• Petition 969 – Energy efficiency and micro-generation