The Crown Office had raised "grave concerns" about its publication.
Mr Salmond's lawyers had earlier said that the parliament's decision to withdraw and then republish a revised version of his submission was a "significant surprise and concern" which could have "a material bearing on whether he is able to attend" the evidence session on Wednesday.
The committee said it would now meet in private on Wednesday "to discuss the implications of Mr Salmond's response and the next steps for its work".
Mr Salmond's submission included claims that there had been a "complete breakdown of the necessary barriers which should exist between government, political party and the prosecution authorities".
The former first minister alleged that there was "a deliberate, prolonged, malicious and concerted effort amongst a range of individuals within the Scottish government and the SNP to damage my reputation, even to the extent of having me imprisoned".
The people named by Mr Salmond in his submissions include Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell, who is the chief executive of the SNP, and Ms Sturgeon's chief of staff, Liz Lloyd.
Mr Salmond has also accused Ms Sturgeon, who succeeded him as first minister and SNP leader, of misleading parliament and breaching the ministerial code.
Ms Sturgeon has denied the allegations and told BBC Scotland that there was "not a shred of evidence" to back up his claims of a conspiracy.
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There are "deep and complex issues" with using vaccine passports or certificates to prove someone's Covid "status", Boris Johnson has said.
Announcing a review of the proposal, he said using certificates to allow visits to venues such as pubs and theatres was a "novelty for our country".
Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove will lead the review.
Mr Johnson said he was "very optimistic" most Covid restrictions in England can be lifted on 21 June.
Vaccine passports have been discussed by countries, including Greece, and operators such as Saga Cruises, as a way to safely reopen international leisure travel.
But ministers have frequently appeared to dismiss introducing a similar scheme domestically within the UK for hospitality or leisure activities.
A further 8,489 coronavirus cases were recorded across the UK on Tuesday and 548 more people have died within 28 days of a positive test - taking the total by that measure to 121,305.
More than 17.9 million people across the UK have now received at least one vaccine dose, according to latest government figures.
Speaking during a visit to a south London school, Mr Johnson said the UK had "never thought in terms of having something that you have to show to go to a pub or a theatre".
He said there were "ethical issues" about the role of government "in mandating… or banning people from doing such a thing".
He added: "We can't be discriminatory against people who can't have the vaccine, there might be a medical reason, or some people may genuinely refuse to have one - I think that's a mistake."
But the prime minister said it was possible to consider the issue at the same time as the rollout of the vaccine.
It is understood the review will not just consider vaccination history alone, with the possibility of negative Covid tests being recorded to gain access to some events or services, if required by the organisers.
One option could see the NHS app used to record both, with an individual then able to show their status on the app if required.
The government previously said it would consider how to facilitate Covid certificates for people who needed to travel to other countries which demanded them.
The review's findings are hoped to be available before the final stage of England's lockdown easing on 21 June, the earliest date by which ministers hope most Covid measures can end.
Global framework
A No 10 spokesman said an international consensus needed to be built on how to allow greater foreign travel, which the UK was seeking to achieve via the G7 and other multilateral discussions.
"It will be for different countries to determine their own regimes in relation to the quarantine and who they want to allow in, and we want to try and work together to get some sort of international framework," he said.
Greek tourism minister Haris Theoharis told the BBC last week that early technical discussions were under way with UK officials about how a potential passport scheme might work.
Saga Cruises announced last month it would require all travellers to prove they had received two vaccine doses before departure.
"You will be required to bring the vaccination document and/or evidence with you as proof at the time of boarding," its website said.
Holidays in the UK or abroad are not currently permitted under coronavirus restrictions.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said a review of how to return to international travel while managing risk from imported cases and virus variants would report on 12 April.
Meanwhile, holiday firms and airlines have reported a surge in bookings since plans for easing lockdown in England were unveiled on Monday.
Labour shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds told the BBC a review of vaccine passports was "sensible" but said it should be "conclusive" and consider all the evidence available.
Christopher Dye, professor of epidemiology at Oxford University, told the BBC that vaccine passports would "certainly be helpful in releasing the lockdown" but they should not "make things worse for people of lesser means".
Mr Johnson said his roadmap for easing lockdown measures, laid out on Monday, was "a cautious but irreversible approach".
Due to the vaccine programme, the country could "look at that 21 June date with some optimism".
He said while "some people will say that we're going to be going too fast, some people will say we're going too slow", but he thought the balance of the reopening was right.
Mr Johnson said each phase of unlocking restrictions - such as children going back to school - would be "adding to the budget of risk".
This is why time was needed between measures to "observe" the impact, he added.
Earlier, Mr Hancock said he wanted measures to become a "matter of personal responsibility and social norms" that could see people choosing to wear masks on public transport.
Prof Sir John Bell, regius chair of medicine at Oxford University, told BBC Radio 4's World at One he thought, and hoped, the country would get back to the stage where people did not wear masks, with Covid "operating in the background" like flu.
The devolved nations have the power to set their own restrictions.
Outlining her own roadmap, Ms Sturgeon said she hoped to end stay at home restrictions from 5 April in Scotland.
Meanwhile in Wales, First Minister Mark Drakeford has said he hopes the country's "stay-at-home" requirement could end within three weeks, with some non-essential shops and hairdressers possibly reopening at the same time.
The reopening of Scotland's economy - including shops, bars, restaurants, gyms and hairdressers - is expected to start from 26 April, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
She said it was hoped that the country's stay at home restrictions could be lifted on 5 April.
Four people from two households will be allowed to meet outdoors from 15 March.
All primary pupils and more senior secondary students could return to school from that date.
However, pupils in the first three years of secondary school are unlikely to return until after the Easter holidays.
"But in the coming weeks, if the data allows and positive trends continue, we will seek to accelerate the easing of restrictions," she said.
However, opposition parties said the statement "fell short" of expectations and lacked clarity on its "ultimate goal", while business leaders called for more detail.
Under a four-step plan to ease lockdown south of the border, all legal limits on social contact could be lifted by 21 June if strict conditions are met.
Ms Sturgeon said the aim in Scotland was to move fully back to a levels system of restrictions from the last week in April.
"At that stage, we hope that all parts of the country currently in level four will be able to move out of level four and back initially to level three - possibly with some revision to the content of the levels."
The first minister said that from 26 April, the government would expect to see a "phased but significant re-opening of the economy, including non essential retail, hospitality and services like gyms and hairdressers".
More detail will be set out in mid-March, including the order in which parts of the economy will reopen.
The aim is for a "progressive easing" of the level four restrictions at three-week intervals.
Scotland's youngest children and some senior pupils returned to the classroom on Monday, and Ms Sturgeon said schools were the "immediate priority".
It is hoped that the next phase will see the remaining primary school pupils return from 15 March, with more senior pupils back in the classroom "for at least part of their learning".
The rules on outdoor mixing would also be relaxed on that date, with up to four people from two households allowed to meet, and non-contact sports for under-18s resuming.
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The final phase of the return to school would take place from 5 April, a date when school pupils will be at the start or middle of their Easter holiday break.
It is also hoped to lift the stay at home restrictions from that date. At least six people from two households should be able to meet together outdoors, and communal worship will be allowed to resume.
The timing of major religious festivals - such as Easter - will be taken into account when deciding the exact date.
The levels system of restrictions would then be reintroduced from 26 April, along with a "more substantial" reopening of society and the economy.
"It is important to stress, of course, that all of this depends on us continuing to suppress the virus now - and continuing to accept some trade-offs for a period, for example on international travel," said Ms Sturgeon.
"However, if we do so, I am optimistic that we can make good progress in returning more normality to our lives and the economy."
Will the first minister go faster?
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Analysis by Lucy Whyte, BBC Scotland education correspondent
Scotland may have been among the first of the four nations to get any pupils in class, but it looks like it could be one of the last to have all pupils back to in-person learning.
This plan could see more children, especially primary pupils, allowed back in the classroom by 15 March, a week after England.
But the full return of Scotland's schools might not happen until a month later.
The decision to stick with a phased approach will be welcomed by teaching unions, who will also be glad to see the inclusion of blended learning initially for senior pupils.
The 5 April date for the potential full return to class is at the start of the Easter holidays for most, so really we are talking about the middle of that month before everyone is back.
Will the first minister go faster? She has made clear that she will if she can, and there is a precedent when she accelerated the full return to school in August last year.
On that occasion she could demonstrate that numbers were on her side.
The Scottish Conservatives' Holyrood leader, Ruth Davidson, said the statement "fell short of public expectations".
"We didn't get information about when measures like social distancing will end and when we will be able to do something as basic as give a loved one a hug," she said.
"Everyone understands that we might not be able to give people absolute certainty - but they were at least expecting the first minister to give them some kind of hope.
"Nothing has been published about what happens after 26 April. This isn't a route map out of Covid, it is holding document."
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Scottish Labour's interim leader, Jackie Baillie, said the statement lacked clarity on its "ultimate goal".
She also called for a revised testing strategy which includes mass community testing where appropriate.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie voiced concern that vaccine passports were "slowly gaining traction" and said: "We don't want a two tier society which would exacerbate inequalities."
Scottish Green Party co-leader Patrick Harvie also raised fears that vaccine passports could make social inequality worse.
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Tracy Black, director of CBI Scotland, said many Scottish businesses would be "left feeling deflated" as there was still "considerable uncertainty" about how and when they could reopen their doors.
She said businesses recognised it was right to take a cautious approach, but "will have been looking for more detail than the partial timetable that has been provided".
Liz Cameron, the chief executive of the Scottish Chambers of Commerce, said: "It is important that Scotland remains as closely in step with the four nations as is possible.
"A competitive disadvantage to business communities elsewhere in the UK will only add insult to the injury already caused by the pandemic."
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Former journalist Boris Johnson has generated a splash with his career advice to schoolchildren, in which he suggested journalists are "always abusing people".
The prime minister, who took part in an online class at Sedgehill Academy in Lewisham, south London, on Tuesday, used the visit to reflect on his own past as a newspaper reporter and columnist.
Scroll down to read Jon Craig's take on what could have prompted the PM's comments
Image:Boris Johnson gave career advice to schoolchildren as he joined an online class
"When you're a journalist it's a great, great job, it's a great profession," Mr Johnson said.
"But the trouble is, sometimes you find yourself always abusing people or attacking people.
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"Not that you want to abuse them or attack them, but you are being critical, when maybe you feel sometimes a bit guilty about that, because you haven't put yourself in the place of the person you're criticising.
"So I thought I'd give it a go," he added, referring to his career change.
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The prime minister worked for The Times, the Daily Telegraph and The Spectator before entering politics when he was first elected as an MP at the age of 36.
And Mr Johnson added his "strong advice" was "don't do politics immediately, do lots of other things first".
Early in his career as a journalist, Mr Johnson was sacked from The Times over allegations he fabricated a quote for a front-page story.
His later career as a columnist, which he continued up until becoming prime minister in 2019, also provided a number of controversies.
Mr Johnson's writing has been heavily criticised for remarks in his past newspaper columns, which have included references to "flag-waving piccaninnies", Africans with "watermelon smiles" and "tank-topped bum boys".
Asked about the prime minister's remarks on Tuesday, Mr Johnson's press secretary Allegra Stratton told a regular briefing of Westminster journalists: "That is the prime minister talking about the fact that all of you, as journalists, your job is to challenge and that makes us in government better.
"I think that's what he meant."
Labour's shadow media minister, Chris Matheson, called on the prime minister to "withdraw these remarks and apologise".
"For Boris Johnson to say journalists are 'always abusing people' probably says more about his own career," he said.
"It is particularly troubling coming so soon after the prime minister stood by one of his ministers who attacked a journalist who was just trying to do her job.
"We know from Donald Trump that these kind of assaults on the free press are dangerous and designed to stir up distrust and division."
Analysis: What provoked the PM's extraordinary and apparently unprovoked outburst? by Jon Craig, chief political correspondent
So what put Boris Johnson - an ex-journalist himself - in such a bad mood about those of us employed in his former profession?
These reports were essentially about a vicious power struggle inside the prime minister's inner circle, but the embarrassing details veered between excruciating soap opera and farce.
First, it was revealed that Dilyn relieved himself all over the handbag of a former No. 10 staffer in the Downing Street garden.
Next came the disclosure that at Chequers the pesky pooch chewed the furniture, soiled the carpets and once darted under the PM's feet with an antique book in his mouth.
At that point, Mr Johnson is said to have shouted: "For God's sake, I'm going to get another £1,000 repair bill! Someone please shoot that f****** dog!"
Image:Dilyn, a Jack Russell-cross, joined Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds in Number 10 in 2019
One can only imagine how Carrie - increasingly being described in the public prints as a Lady Macbeth figure inside No. 10 - would have reacted to reading that threat of extreme animal cruelty!
And it perhaps goes some way to explaining the PM's extraordinary and apparently unprovoked outburst against journalists during a careers advice session at a south London school.
"You sometimes find yourself always abusing people or attacking people," he claimed, prompting the inevitable reference to pots and kettles from opposition MPs.
The shadow Northern Ireland secretary, Louise Haigh, tweeted: "As a former journalist who tried to have another journalist beaten up, the Prime Minister speaks from first-hand experience here."
That was a reference to the disclosure in 1990 that Mr Johnson, then a Daily Telegraph journalist, was asked by a friend, Darius Guppy, to find the address of a News of the World journalist so he could have him beaten up.
Two years earlier, Mr Johnson was sacked from The Times for making up a quote. But despite that setback, his career took off when he became the Telegraph's Brussels correspondent.
Straight bananas, square cucumbers, a Brussels ban on prawn cocktail crisps and even harmonising condom sizes: these stories propelled the Euro-sceptic Johnson to superstar status in Fleet Street.
Image:Boris Johnson first became an MP in 2001, winning the seat of Henley in Oxfordshire
But his former editors have not always been kind about his journalistic career. Max Hastings has said Mr Johnson wouldn't know the truth - in his private or political life - if confronted by it at an identity parade.
And even Charles Moore, an admirer of Mr Johnson then and now, has complained that his star reporter was always late - "terribly late" - filing his copy.
As a classical scholar, Boris Johnson must surely be familiar with the famous quotations of another Tory classicist, Enoch Powell.
In a quote Tony Blair was fond of repeating, Powell memorably said: "Politicians complaining about the press are like sailors complaining about the sea."
The irony of the PM's uncharacteristic outburst is that during the previous 24 hours the press coverage of his roadmap to freedom had been pretty favourable.
The reopening of Scotland's economy - including shops, bars, restaurants, gyms and hairdressers - is expected to start in the last week of April, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
She said there would be a "progressive easing" of restrictions before then, with four people from two households allowed to meet outdoors from 15 March.
All primary and more secondary school pupils could return from that date.
It is hoped to lift the stay at home restriction on 5 April.
Ms Sturgeon said the Scottish government's strategic framework was "deliberately cautious" at this stage.
Ms Sturgeon said the aim in Scotland was to move fully back to a levels system of restrictions from the last week in April.
"At that stage, we hope that all parts of the country currently in level four will be able to move out of level four and back initially to level three - possibly with some revision to the content of the levels."
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She said that from the last week of April, the government would expect to see "phased but significant re-opening of the economy, including non essential retail, hospitality and services like gyms and hairdressers".
More detail will be set out in mid-March, including the order in which parts of the economy will reopen.
The aim is for a "progressive easing" of the level four restrictions at three-week intervals.
Scotland's youngest children and some senior pupils returned to the classroom on Monday, and Ms Sturgeon said schools were the "immediate priority".
It is hoped that the next phase will see the remaining primary school pupils and more senior pupils back in the classroom "for at least part of their learning" from 15 March.
The rules on outdoor mixing would also be relaxed on that date, with up to four people from two households allowed to meet, and non-contact sports for under-18s resuming.
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The final phase of the return to school would take place on 5 April, when it is hoped to lift the stay at home restrictions.
At least six people from two households should be able to meet together outdoors from that date, and communal worship will be allowed to resume.
The levels system of restrictions would then be reintroduced from 26 April, along with a "more substantial" reopening of society and the economy.
"It is important to stress, of course, that all of this depends on us continuing to suppress the virus now - and continuing to accept some trade-offs for a period, for example on international travel," said Ms Sturgeon.
"However, if we do so, I am optimistic that we can make good progress in returning more normality to our lives and the economy."
Will the first minister go faster?
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Analysis by Lucy Whyte, BBC Scotland education correspondent
Scotland may have been among the first of the four nations to get any pupils in class, but it looks like it could be one of the last to have all pupils back to in-person learning.
This plan could see more children, especially primary pupils, allowed back in the classroom by 15 March, a week after England.
But the full return of Scotland's schools might not happen until a month later.
The decision to stick with a phased approach will be welcomed by teaching unions, who will also be glad to see the inclusion of blended learning initially for senior pupils.
The 5 April date for the potential full return to class is at the start of the Easter holidays for most, so really we are talking about the middle of that month before everyone is back.
Will the first minister go faster? She has made clear that she will if she can, and there is a precedent when she accelerated the full return to school in August last year.
On that occasion she could demonstrate that numbers were on her side.
The Scottish Conservatives' Holyrood leader, Ruth Davidson, said the statement "fell short of public expectations".
"We didn't get information about when measures like social distancing will end and when we will be able to do something as basic as give a loved one a hug," she said.
"Everyone understands that we might not be able to give people absolute certainty - but they were at least expecting the first minister to give them some kind of hope.
"Nothing has been published about what happens after 26 April. This isn't a route map out of Covid, it is holding document."
Scottish Labour's interim leader, Jackie Baillie, said the statement lacked clarity on its "ultimate goal".
She also called for a revised testing strategy which includes mass community testing where appropriate.
