Finance and Public Administration Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, September 7, 2021

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Budget Information on Climate Change (Working Group)

The next item on our agenda is consideration of a note from the clerk in relation to the Scottish Government and Scottish Parliament working group to improve budget information on climate change. Members have received a paper that contains background information on the group, along with a joint letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy and the Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero, Energy and Transport setting out proposed next steps.

Members are invited to note the update in the letter and the fact that the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee will be taking the lead on this piece of work.

I ask the clerk whether she has anything to add to the information in the paper.

I add that the intention is that a member of this committee’s clerking team will sit on the group and feed back as appropriate.

Do members have any comments?

That seems fine.

Thank you for that. Members seem to be in agreement that we note the letter.

As the next item on our agenda is consideration of a work programme paper in private, I now close the public part of the meeting.