Whether it has any plans to change the law on heritable succession.

The Scottish Law Commission’sseventh programme of law reform, which will run from 2005-09, was published on 21 February 2005 andincludes a project on the law of inheritance, including heritable succession. Iattach a link to the seventh programme on the Scottish Law Commission’s websitehttp://www.scotlawcom.gov.uk/html/law_reform.html.
Work has begun on the projectand a discussion paper will be published around the end of the year. A report willbe published well before the end of the programme. We will consider the report carefullywhen it is available.