Procedures Committee, 18 Jan 2000

Meeting date: Tuesday, January 18, 2000

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Deputy Convener

The first item on the agenda is the choice of deputy convener. A report has been circulated with the papers which indicates that the deputy convener is to be drawn from the Labour party. There is an elaborate description as to how we should cast our vote in the event that there are two or more nominations.

In the absence of any other Labour member, I believe that Janis Hughes is to be the deputy convener. I nominate Janis Hughes as the deputy convener of this committee. Are members agreeable?

Janis Hughes was elected deputy convener by acclamation.

Received by acclaim.

May I say that I was not just nominated because there are no other Labour members here.

Of course not.

I thank members for agreeing to my nomination.

I meant that I would do the nomination. I was happy to do that anyway, in the spirit of the new politics.