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Agenda item 5 is consideration of the committee's role as a secondary committee for the Local Government in Scotland Bill. We have been identified as a secondary committee because the bill contains a section that enables the setting up of concessionary fares schemes for elderly people in Scotland. The clerk's paper suggests that our interest in the bill is probably so marginal that it might be better if the Local Government Committee and the Equal Opportunities Committee were to take evidence on that aspect. I therefore suggest that we decline the opportunity to take evidence formally and recommend to the Equal Opportunities Committee that it consider the aspects of the bill that relate to concessionary travel for elderly people and the equalisation process therewithin. Is that agreed?
Members indicated agreement.
The press and public have already evacuated, but I thank them in their absence for their presence here today. We move into private session for agenda item 6.
Meeting continued in private until 13:35.
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