Social Inclusion, Housing and Voluntary Sector Committee, 06 Dec 2000
Meeting date: Wednesday, December 6, 2000
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Scottish Parliament Social Inclusion, Housing and Voluntary Sector Committee Wednesday 6 December 2000 (Morning)
[The Deputy Convener opened the meeting at 10:02]
I open this meeting of the Social Inclusion, Housing and Voluntary Sector Committee. We have received apologies from Karen Whitefield, Johann Lamont, Mike Watson and Bill Aitken.
Is it agreed that we take item 5, which is the committee's work programme, in private?
Members indicated agreement.
I remind members that this is the last formal meeting of the committee before the recess because the Parliament will meet on the next two Wednesday mornings and committees cannot meet at the same time as the Parliament. We will have an informal session when we visit Glasgow on Monday to follow up the evidence that we heard on asylum seekers.
It is likely that the next formal meeting of the committee will take place in January. As we have yet to hear when the housing bill will be launched, it is very difficult for us to schedule our work. We cleared our diaries in the autumn in expectation of the bill, and we have done some preparatory work, but we cannot plan our business and schedule stage 1 evidence until we know when we will receive the bill. We hope to know shortly when that will happen.
I welcome Keith Raffan back to the committee. He was greatly missed and we are pleased to have him back.
Meeting continued in private.
Meeting resumed in public.