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Cant Get Enough!! 16 May 2011 | 07:40 pm
If you 'Can’t Get Enough' (as Paul Rodgers and Bad Company would say) of Scottish Parliament blogging and are a Gaelic speaker, you may be interested in the Parliament’s new Gaelic blog: Blog Pàrlamai...
Here I go again! 12 May 2011 | 01:44 am
As Archie Bell and the Drells once sang. Well, oath/affirmation this morning for the new 129 MSPs and election of new PO as I type. So we start the 4th session of the Parliament and fairly soon we wil...
What are we doing? 18 Mar 2011 | 09:33 pm
So, no more PPC meetings, dissolution next Tuesday, surely we are just sitting about doing nothing? Well, no! Petitions continue to come in, we will be looking at them and discussing the terms with pe...
Hold the front page! 15 Mar 2011 | 07:58 pm
Couple of real page turner report published this morning. The Committee's Annual Report for the last parliamentary year and its Legacy Paper highlighting issues for the next PPC. Both reports availabl...
End of an era 8 Mar 2011 | 09:09 pm
Well, the end of an era this afternoon. An occasion as symbolic as a new album by the Blue Nile (sigh, if only). The PPC has its final meeting of this third parliamentary session and what a big agenda...
Willkommen to Bundestag Petitions Committee 2 Mar 2011 | 09:37 pm
PPC pleased to be hosting a visiting to the Scottish Parliament today of the Petitions Committee of the German Bundestag. Should be a very interesting discussion, learning more about the German system...
Biggest debate ever! 24 Feb 2011 | 02:20 am
Well, perhaps not but big debate in Chamber this PM with a PPC inspired debate on the work of the committee during session 3. Dissolution of the Parliament fast approaching so an opportunity for the c...
Meeting with Japanese House of Councillors 14 Dec 2010 | 03:35 am
Have a meetying today with officials from the Japanese House of Councillors. Looking forward to this. Received a list of topics to discuss should should be an interesting exchange of ideas between res...
Update re PPC mtg 7 Dec 8 Dec 2010 | 12:02 am
PPC meeting expected to ahead this afternoon as the committee is quorate (need three members for the committee to undertake its business). However, the discussion on the time for all to be heard forum...
Jings, crivvens, help ma boab! 19 Nov 2010 | 12:18 am
Not sure I ever thought I would get the chance to use these words in a 'clerky' work context. I guess blogs allow this! You may have seen the muckle agenda which was published today for next Tuesday's...
