Enterprise and Culture Committee, 16 Nov 2004

Meeting date: Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Official Report 266KB pdf

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Items in Private

Welcome to the Enterprise and Culture Committee. First, I ask everyone who has a mobile to switch it off, please. Secondly, I have received apologies from Susan Deacon, and I was to give Jamie Stone's apologies if he did not come. Those are hereby recorded.

Item 1 is to consider whether to take items 4 and 5 in private. I will take them separately, because we had a brief discussion about taking item 4 in public. What does the committee feel?

I have absolutely no problem with taking it in public.

We should be as open as we possibly can be. There is no great party-political divide on item 4. Is everybody happy to take it in public?

Members indicated agreement.

We have struck a blow for freedom and transparency, and will take item 4 in public. I presume that we will take item 5 in private. Is that agreed?

Members indicated agreement.

We have struck a blow for privacy as well.