SCOTS Project - www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk Document : 1111 Title : Scottish Parliament: Committees: Education, Culture and Sport: Minutes: Meeting 2, 2003 Author(s): Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body Copyright holder(s): Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body: © Scottish Parliamentary copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Queen's Printer for Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. Text EDUCATION, CULTURE AND SPORT COMMITTEE MINUTES 2nd Meeting, 2003 (Session 1) Tuesday 14 January 2003 Present: Jackie Baillie Karen Gillon (Convener) Ian Jenkins Irene McGugan Mr Brian Monteith Cathy Peattie (Deputy Convener) Michael Russell The meeting opened at The meeting opened at 2.07 pm. 1. Gaelic Language (Scotland) Bill: The Committee took evidence on the general principles of the Bill at Stage 1 from— John Mackay, Scottish Natural Heritage Mary Maclean, Scottish Natural Heritage Mary Bryden, Director of Public Programmes, National Museums of Scotland John Walter Jones, Chief Executive, Welsh Language Board Meirion Prys Jones, Head of Language Planning, Welsh Language Board 2. McCrone Agreement: The Committee considered reviewing the implementation of the McCrone agreement and agreed, due to insufficient time to conduct a detailed inquiry, to recommend that this might be considered by a future Committee. 3. Reporters' Inquiries: The Committee was updated on reporters’ inquiries. The Committee agreed to close the inquiry on popular music as the appointed reporter was no longer a member of the Committee and to seek information from the Executive on the issue of primary school closures. 4. Roman Remains at Cramond: The Committee agreed that this matter was now an issue for the City of Edinburgh Council and the Cramond Management Group. The Committee expressed gratitude to the Lord Provost, Mr Eric Milligan, for his interest and support in this matter. The Committee agreed to recommend that a future Committee might wish to review progress at a later date. 5. Review of Scottish Screen: The Committee noted recent correspondence and agreed to consider this item again when further information had been received from the Executive. The meeting closed at The meeting closed at 3.28 pm. Martin Verity Clerk to the Committee Room 2.7 Committee Chambers Ext. 85204 Email: martin.verity@scottish.parliament.uk This work is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The SCOTS Project and the University of Glasgow do not necessarily endorse, support or recommend the views expressed in this document. Document source: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/committees/historic/education/mop-03/edmop0114.htm Information about document and author: Text Text audience General public: Audience size: 1000+ Text details Method of composition: Wordprocessed Year of composition: 2003 Word count: 303 General description: Committee Minutes. See http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/committees/index.htm Text medium Web (webpages, discussion boards, newsgroups, chat rooms): Text publication details Published: Publisher: Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body Publication year: 2003 Place of publication: www.scottish.parliament.uk Text setting Government/politics: Text type Written record of speech (e.g. hansard, legal proceedings, minutes of meetings): Author Author details Author id: 908 Surname: Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body