Item 3 is to allow the committee to consider further an interim response from the Minister for Justice to the committee's stage 1 report on the Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Bill, which members have had circulated to them. The clerks assure me that we will get a detailed response from the minister before the end of January. Are members content with that?
As members know, we have a stage 1 debate on the bill on Thursday afternoon. The first day of stage 2 consideration is now expected to be 6 February.
Meeting continued in private until 15:17.