Transport and the Environment Committee, 08 Sep 1999

Meeting date: Wednesday, September 8, 1999

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Invitations

This last item on the agenda is just for information. I remind the committee of the invitation from Scottish Natural Heritage on behalf of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature: World Conservation Union to a working dinner on 21 October on environmental issues relevant to Scotland and a workshop on integrated planning on 22 October. Anyone who wishes to take up that offer can speak to me after the meeting or have a word with Lynn.

I would now like to close the meeting. I think that it has been very rewarding and that it has built on our first meeting and the two-day briefing session during the recess. We will now develop a work programme for the foreseeable future. We can then start to tackle the meat of the issue by inviting people along to grill them—or whatever we decide to do to the poor souls who appear before us. They can provide us with advice and up-to-date information on the issues that we have discussed.

I welcome that. I suggest, convener, that if a substantive item or items can be placed on the agenda for our next meeting, the committee gives you authority to do so ahead of agreeing the work programme formally.

Smashing. I thank members, the clerks and the people in the galleries. We will see you at our next meeting on 22 September.

Meeting closed at 11:54.