Justice 2 Committee, 03 Oct 2006

Meeting date: Tuesday, October 3, 2006

Official Report 227KB pdf

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Items in Private

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the 25th meeting in 2006 of the Justice 2 Committee. Would anybody who has a mobile phone, pager or BlackBerry kindly switch it off? The minister has already done so—I give him credit for that.

I welcome to the meeting Bill Aitken and John Swinney. We have received no apologies for absence. Jackie Baillie has had to slip out of the meeting, but she will return in a minute.

Under agenda item 1, the committee is asked to agree to take in private item 4, under which it will consider its approach to the Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Bill, and item 5, under which it will consider a draft stage 1 report on the Christmas Day and New Year's Day Trading (Scotland) Bill. Do members agree to take those items in private?

Members indicated agreement.