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Good afternoon.
On a point of order, Deputy Presiding Officer.
The Presiding Officer has selected an urgent question to be taken in the chamber later today. That urgent question and the one that I submitted were almost identical, and both call on the Lord Advocate to provide the answers. Have you had any indication yet from the Government on who will answer the urgent question?
We should bear in mind standing order rule 13.8, on urgent questions, which states:
“An urgent question concerning the operation of the systems of criminal prosecution … shall normally be answered by the Lord Advocate or the Solicitor General for Scotland”.
If the Lord Advocate is not going to answer the question, will an explanation be given as to why that is the case?
I thank Mr Ross for his point of order. I left a meeting about eight minutes ago and, at that stage, the Scottish Government had not yet given an indication as to who would deal with the urgent question.
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