Official Report · Committee
Wallace Safe Conduct (PE1350)
The last new petition today is PE1350, by Nick Brand, who calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to make a formal loan request to the National Archives at Kew to return the Wallace safe conduct to Scotland under a permanent loan agreement. Do members have suggestions on how the committee should deal with the petition?
Fiona Hyslop set up a committee of experts to consider whether the document is authentic, because some think that it is not. I think that that committee is due to report in October. I suggest that we suspend consideration of the petition until the committee says whether it believes that the letter is authentic.
Do we agree to suspend the petition until we have the report from the committee that has been established?Members indicated agreement.
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