Procedures Committee, 06 Mar 2007
Meeting date: Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Official Report
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Annual Report
The next item is the annual report, which is a factual account of what we have done. Does anyone have any questions or observations? The report will presumably cover what we have just decided. Is that right?
I think that it already does.
Yes, paragraph 4 mentions it.
If there are no other points, I take it that we approve the annual report. What happens to it now?
We are planning to publish it in the week preceding dissolution.
We still have annual reports, as we decided previously.
On two or three recent issues, we have not supported the Conveners Group's views, so I feel slightly unpopular when I go to its meetings. However, I claim, "It wisnae me"—I blame all of you.
You keep telling them it was me—you are picking on me.
No, it is a collective view.
Two or three papers have been circulated on subjects that are not agenda items. The one about the independent review of regulation, inspection, audit and complaints handling of public services in Scotland invites any of us who have views from either a personal or a Procedures Committee point of view to send them to Andrew Mylne. He will pass them to Paul Grice, who is collecting views on the governance of such matters to put to Professor Crerar.
That is an invitation to committee members to think, do some more reading and send in some stuff if they want. Some people get excited about having more or fewer ombudspersons, commissioners and suchlike, and about how independent is independent. I draw that paper to the committee's attention.
We end the public part of the meeting and will discuss the legacy paper in private.
Meeting continued in private until 11:22.