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Item 2 is consideration of our approach to the forthcoming bill on crofting. The Rural Affairs and Environment Committee is likely to be the lead committee for stage 1 scrutiny. The purpose of this item is to allow the committee to take administrative decisions in advance of the bill's introduction. The committee is invited: first, to agree that the clerks should issue a call for written evidence after the bill's introduction; secondly, to authorise me to make bids to the Conveners Group and, where necessary, the Parliamentary Bureau for fact-finding visits or external meetings; thirdly, to delegate to me responsibility for arranging for the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body to pay witnesses' expenses; and fourthly, to agree to take in private at future meetings agenda items on witness selection, locations for visits or external meetings, the review of evidence and the consideration of draft reports. Do members agree to the approach that I have suggested?
Members indicated agreement.
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