Public Petitions Committee, 27 Sep 2006

Meeting date: Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Official Report 217KB pdf

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Item in Private

Good morning everyone and welcome to the 15th meeting in 2006 of the Public Petitions Committee. Unusually for the committee, there are four items on the agenda. I have received apologies from Jackie Baillie, John Scott and Rosie Kane. Sandra White should be here, although she initially intimated her apologies.

Item 1 is to consider whether to take item 4, on external research into the petitions system, in private. We do not normally discuss much in private, but this is research that has been commissioned by the committee but not yet formally launched. It would be a bit remiss of us to discuss something publicly that has not been published. Does the committee agree to discuss the issue in private?

Members indicated agreement.