The fourth item on our agenda, which will hopefully be quite short, is to decide whether to submit evidence to the Scottish Affairs Select Committee's inquiry into poverty in Scotland. The clerk has prepared a potential submission that gives a summary of our inquiry into deprivation spending. Do members agree that the submission should be sent to the Scottish Affairs Select Committee?
We agreed to take our final item, which is the review of the Scottish Executive's management of public finances, in private.
Meeting continued in private until 12:40.