Justice Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, January 23, 2018

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Justice Sub-Committee on Policing (Report Back)

Agenda item 7 is feedback from the Justice Sub-Committee on Policing on its meeting of 18 January 2018. Following the verbal report, there will be the opportunity for brief comments or questions. I refer members to paper 7, which is a note by the clerk, and invite John Finnie to provide that feedback.

As the convener said, the Justice Sub-Committee on Policing met on 18 January. There were two items on the agenda. One was the appointment of the convener, and I am grateful to the members for electing me. I am also very grateful to Mary Fee for her work and would like the record to show that. She worked in a very consensual way, and I hope to carry that forward.

The other agenda item was a discussion in private of our work programme. Looking ahead, we hope next Thursday to cover the issue of undercover policing with Her Majesty’s inspectorate of constabulary in Scotland.

I am happy to take questions.

We also welcomed Daniel Johnson to the sub-committee, and he duly declared his interests.

As there are no questions, we now move into private session. The next meeting of the Justice Committee will be on 30 January 2018, when we will hold two round-table evidence sessions, one on Brexit and family law, and the other on Brexit and civil, commercial and consumer law.