Petitions

I advise members of the press and public that, because our earlier discussions overran, we intend to take the third item on the agenda—our consideration of public petitions—at a subsequent meeting. It would simply be too difficult to include that item because of time constraints. That item will be rescheduled at the earliest opportunity and I apologise to anyone who has attended the meeting with a particular interest in those petitions. I should perhaps make it clear that I am talking about the petitions that the committee is considering for the first time; we will still deal with petition PE470 on genetically modified crops, which is the last item on the agenda.