Environment and Rural Development Committee, 27 Oct 2004

Meeting date: Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Official Report 187KB pdf

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Item in Private

I welcome committee members, witnesses, the press and members of the public to the meeting. I have an apology from Maureen Macmillan. I ask colleagues, and everyone else in the room, to switch off their mobile phones. We got hit with a phone going off in the middle of the previous meeting.

Agenda item 1 is to ask members to agree to take in private item 4, which is consideration of our draft stage 1 report on the Water Services etc (Scotland) Bill. I would also like members' approval to continue to consider the report in private session until we agree it, which should be on 3 November. Is that agreed?

Members indicated agreement.