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Dear all
 
The Minister for Culture and External Affairs appeared before the Education Lifelong Learning and Culture Committee on the 19th January to give evidence on the Public Records (Scotland) Bill. This session concluded the Committee's oral evidence sessions, which saw appearances from the Scottish Information Commissioner, the Scottish Council on Archives, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives, Barnardo's Scotland, the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, In-Care Survivors Service Scotland and Tom Shaw, chair of the Historic Abuse Systemic Review.
 
Official Reports of the sessions can be found at the following links:
8th December: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/ellc/or-10/ed10-3301.htm
12 January: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/ellc/or-11/ed11-0101.htm
19 January: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/ORSearch/ReportView.aspx?r=6010&mode=html
 
Written evidence to the Committee is available at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/ellc/inquiries/PR%20Bill/PRBillWrittenEvidence.htm.
 
The Committee will consider a draft of its Stage 1 report in private at its next meeting on 26 January, and hopes to publish the Report on 4 February.
 
Further information on the Bill can be found on the NAS's website at http://www.nas.gov.uk/recordKeeping/publicRecordsBillIntroduction.asp.
 
Jenny Hunt
 
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