Finance Committee, 06 Mar 2007

Meeting date: Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Official Report 170KB pdf

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Annual Report

Agenda item 2, which is the only other item that we will take in public, is consideration of our draft annual report. Members will see from the paper that the clerks have provided that the draft report is formulaic, short and factual. I have been told that it cannot be more than 750 words. Currently, it contains 731 words, so we have 19 words to play with.

Obviously, the draft report is required to go to the Conveners Group to ensure that there is consistency across committees and that a common format has been used. The draft report seems to do the job excellently, but I would be happy to consider any suggested amendments from members.

It is lovely.

Thank you.

This is the committee's final meeting before the end of the parliamentary session, so it is important that I thank the committee's clerks, Scottish Parliament information centre officials, the official report and everybody else who has served committee members in this session with their customary expertise and professionalism. We are enormously grateful to them and to all the advisers and witnesses. I also thank all current and past members of the committee during the session, including the previous convener, Des McNulty, who convened the committee for much of the session. The committee has done nothing in this session that will diminish its reputation for rigour and vigorous analysis. We hope that our successors will pursue that legacy in the next session. On behalf of us all, I thank everyone who has made it possible for us to carry out our business so effectively.

That ends the public part of the meeting.

Meeting continued in private until 11:37.