COVID-19 Committee

Meeting date: Thursday, January 28, 2021

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Decision on Taking Business in Private

Good morning and welcome to the third meeting in 2021 of the COVID-19 Committee. We have received apologies from Monica Lennon, and David Stewart joins us as her substitute. I welcome David to the meeting.

Before we begin the substantive part of the meeting, I take a moment to acknowledge that we reached a sombre milestone this week. As many people will know, 100,000 deaths to Covid-19 have now been recorded across the United Kingdom. Our thoughts are with those who we have lost to the disease and their families.

Agenda item 1 is a decision on whether to take in private item 4 and all future consideration of the committee’s work programme. Do members agree to do that? If any member disagrees, they should indicate that in the chat function.

As no member has indicated that they disagree, the committee agrees to take in private item 4 and all future consideration of the committee’s work programme.