Health Committee, 08 Sep 2005
Meeting date: Thursday, September 8, 2005
Official Report
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Items in Private
I welcome everybody back to the Health Committee after the recess. We had a big event in Perth last Thursday and so, in a sense, we reappeared after the recess much earlier than today. We have received apologies from Duncan McNeil.
Item 1 on the agenda is consideration of whether to take agenda items 7 and 8 in private. Item 7 concerns the Human Tissue (Scotland) Bill. It has become our practice, as part of the process of drafting our stage 1 reports, to review in private at the end of each meeting the evidence that we have heard. Having found that that works extremely well, we intend to continue to do so. Item 8 concerns potential witnesses. Again, it is our practice to discuss the names of potential witnesses in private.
Do members agree to discuss those items in private?
Members indicated agreement.
It would be useful if members also agreed to take in private our review of evidence following each subsequent meeting at which we hear oral evidence on the bill. Do members agree to do so?
Members indicated agreement.