Health and Community Care Committee, 16 Nov 1999

Meeting date: Tuesday, November 16, 1999

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Scottish Parliament Health and Community Care Committee Tuesday 16 November 1999

[The Convener opened the meeting at 09:37]

This morning, we will discuss the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Bill. This is the first chance that the committee has had to consider the bill. You will remember that Ben Wallace volunteered to be our committee's rapporteur on the bill. He has liaised with the Justice and Home Affairs Committee and has attended some of its meetings. Richard Simpson and I also attended one of the meetings.

Our discussion of the bill will be in public. I suggest that we then discuss in private item 2 on the agenda, the Arbuthnott draft report, as committee reports should not be made public until they are formally published. I suggest that we also discuss in private item 3 on the agenda, our line of questioning when the Minister for Health and Community Care and the Deputy Minister for Community Care are with us tomorrow.

Do we agree to do that?

Members indicated agreement.