1 Introduction
1. 2006 has been a particularly productive year for
the Scottish Affairs Committee, and the Committee's decision at
the start of this Parliament to concentrate on short, sharp inquiries
of a wide and varied nature has continued to prove a wise decision.
2. The Annual Reports produced by the Scottish Affairs
Committee differ from those produced by the majority of departmental
select committees and, as in previous years, we reiterate that,
with devolution resulting in many responsibilities of the former
Scottish Office being transferred to the Scottish Executive, many
of the objectives and tasks for departmental select committees
set by the Liaison Committee do not apply very closely to this
Committee. Our Report is therefore not structured by reference
to the 10 "core tasks",[1]
but we do seek to reflect the overarching objectives identified
by the Liaison Committee.
3. As they were not asked by the Liaison Committee
to do so, most departmental select committees did not produce
an Annual Report for the calendar year 2005. In the event, the
Scottish Affairs Committee considered it important that the people
of Scotland knew what this Committee had achieved during the year,
and so produced an Annual Report for 2005.[2]
Although most departmental select committees' Annual Reports published
in 2007 will, therefore, detail their actions during both 2005
and 2006, a record of this Committee's actions from when it was
appointed in July 2005 until December 2005 is available in our
Report from last year.
1 See Liaison Committee, First Report, Session 2002-03,
Annual Report 2002-03, HC (2002-03) 558, Appendix 3. Back
2
Scottish Affairs Committee, First Report, Session 2005-06, Work
of the Committee in 2005, HC (2005-06) 836. Back
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