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Our second item is consideration of our annual report for the parliamentary year between 11 May 2014 and 10 May 2015. I invite general comments on the draft annual report, which has been circulated in advance of today’s meeting.
The report is well drafted and summarises the various issues that we have raised.
On European issues, the committee kindly made me its European Union rapporteur. I would like to put on record the fact that I have arranged to go to Brussels in the first week of the recess to pick up a few general transport issues, particularly on EU funding. I want to let members know that I am pursuing the EU rapporteur role with vigour and energy.
That can go in next year’s report.
I do not think that that impacts on the content of our report, but that is a helpful piece of information.
Are there any other comments?
I understand that the annual reports will be produced in a much more user-friendly format in future.
I believe that this report will be produced in that format. I am reliably informed by the clerk that, when it is published, it will have photographs and graphics that will provide a different look to that of previous years.
Photographs of what?
Photographs of matters that are relevant to the activities of the committee.
I saw some drafts of the new format. I think that it is a great project that will make the annual reports of all committees a lot more readable and accessible. We should be encouraging that and using the journalistic inputs, too.
Do members agree to publish the report on 5 June?
Members indicated agreement.
11:22 Meeting continued in private until 11:26.