Good morning and welcome to the eighth meeting in 2014 of the Welfare Reform Committee. I ask everyone to ensure that mobile phones and other electronic equipment are switched off.
It will, of course, depend on how many questions we have for our witnesses, but I think that our meeting today will be slightly shorter than usual. The publication of the Heriot-Watt University evaluation of the Scottish welfare fund has been delayed, so we cannot take that evidence as we had planned.
The first item of business is to decide whether to take in private item 5, which is consideration of the committee’s work programme, and whether to take consideration of draft reports on food banks and sanctions in private at all future meetings. Do members agree?
Members indicated agreement.
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