Rural Development Committee, 05 Mar 2002
Meeting date: Tuesday, March 5, 2002
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Scottish Parliament Rural Development Committee Tuesday 5 March 2002 (Afternoon)
[The Convener opened the meeting at 14:01]
Welcome to this meeting of the Rural Development Committee. We will make a start in spite of the fact that our numbers are a little low at the moment. All other members are supposed to be coming, but we have received notification that several have been held up in traffic.
I am keen to make a punctual start. The minister, who is coming to discuss the revised agenda item 2, is in a great hurry this afternoon and I want to ensure that we do not hold him up when he gets here.
Members will have been advised that we have a revised agenda. The reason for the revision is that one of the statutory instruments that we were to deal with has turned out to be an affirmative instrument.