Standards Committee, 23 Feb 2000

Meeting date: Wednesday, February 23, 2000

Official Report 110KB pdf

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Cross-party Groups

Welcome to this meeting of the Standards Committee. We have had apologies from Tricia Marwick and Adam Ingram.

The first item is to consider applications for cross-party groups on tobacco control, on animal welfare and on information, knowledge and enlightenment. I should inform the committee that consideration of the application for a cross-party group on information, knowledge and enlightenment has been deferred to our next meeting, pending further information.

Members have copies of the application forms. We will consider the applications one by one. Are members content to approve the tobacco control group? Do members wish to ask any questions or raise any points on the application?

It meets with the rules on cross-party groups. I recommend that we agree that the group should be registered as such.

Thank you for that. Any other comments?

If not, we will move straight on to the animal welfare cross-party group application. Are members similarly content to approve this group?

Members indicated agreement.

The clerks will write to the conveners of the two groups, to inform them of our decisions.