Justice 1 Committee and Justice 2 Committee (Joint Meeting), 02 Nov 2004
Meeting date: Tuesday, November 2, 2004
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Scottish Parliament Justice 1 Committee and Justice 2 Committee (Joint Meeting) Tuesday 2 November 2004
[The Convener opened the meeting at 14:39]
I welcome everyone to what is the 33rd meeting in 2004 of the Justice 1 Committee and the 29th meeting in 2004 of the Justice 2 Committee. The purpose of this joint meeting is to consider the budget.
I welcome to the meeting the Lord Advocate, Mr Robert Gordon and Mr Stephen Woodhouse. We thank the Lord Advocate for finding time to be with us. I know that you are an old hand at the procedure, which is that the committee will fire questions at you on the proposed budget for 2005-06, but is there anything that you want to say briefly before we begin the questions?
The Lord Advocate (Colin Boyd):
No. I sent a letter, which I hope that members of the committees have read. Its purpose was to assist members and to prevent me from taking up too much time at the start of the meeting. I have nothing to add to what I said in my letter.
Thank you for disposing of that.
We have received apologies from Margaret Smith. Pauline McNeill, who is the convener of the Justice 1 Committee, will join us, probably in about half an hour's time. I am aware that Marlyn Glen and Bruce McFee will need to depart at some point. I welcome to the meeting our adviser, Ken McKay.