Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, February 21, 2024

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Decision on Taking Business in Private

Good morning, and welcome to the third meeting in 2024 of the Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee.

Our first agenda item is simply to agree to take in private agenda item 4, which relates to evidence that we will hear this morning. Are members content to do so?

Members indicated agreement.

I should also say that, at our previous meeting, we agreed to consider not just the evidence that we had heard on PE1979, which is on establishing an independent inquiry and an independent national whistleblowing officer to investigate concerns about the alleged mishandling of child safeguarding inquiries by public bodies, but the evidence that we took on the A9 dualling project, which we have been considering. Therefore, agenda items 5 and 6 will be taken in private, too. Are members content with that?

Members indicated agreement.