Good morning. I welcome everyone to the 18th meeting in 2014 of the Justice Committee. I ask everyone to switch off mobile phones and other electronic devices completely, as they interfere with the broadcasting system even when switched to silent. No apologies have been received.
Agenda item 1 is a decision on taking business in private. I invite the committee to agree to consider items 3 and 4 in private. Item 3 is consideration of a report by the Justice Sub-Committee on Policing on its work in the first year of police reform, and item 4 is consideration of our initial approach to the scrutiny of the Scottish Government’s draft budget 2015-16. Do members agree to take those items in private?
Members indicated agreement.
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