Procedures Committee, 18 Mar 2003
Meeting date: Tuesday, March 18, 2003
Official Report
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Procedures Committee Annual Report 2002-03
Item 4 concerns the proposed text of our annual report. Indeed, it will be the text of the annual report unless anyone wishes to bring up anything of burning importance that they would like to add or change.
Did we only meet 21 times? It felt like so many more.
It felt like 121.
If we are all happy with the report, it will be included with all the others in the appropriate document.
That brings us to the end of the meeting. I give members my usual thanks for their contributions and for all the work that they have done, for the friction that they have generated and for the constructive ideas that they have come up with. I also thank members and their predecessors for the humour and tolerance that they have shown over the four years for which I have been the convener. I have enjoyed being on the committee and I hope that other members have enjoyed it too.
I thank all our clerking teams—the current individuals and their predecessors—who have supported us well and have worked very hard, sometimes under trying circumstances, for example when I am still trying to proofread the report on Friday morning and it has to be at the printer by midday. I appreciate the work that you have done.
I also thank the people who we do not generally bother to mention—the sound engineers, the official reporters, the broadcasters, and the security guards. Our security staff are now world-renowned experts in the CSG principles, their application and their potential development. I understand that Mike Docherty is going on "Mastermind" and that is to be his specialist subject. The members are just the tip of the iceberg. A lot of people support us in our work and we tend to overlook that, so I thank very much everyone who has supported the committee over the past four years. I hope that the next committee is at least as much fun.
I endorse everything that you have said about all the people that you mentioned. We also thank you for the way in which you have convened the committee from the start. I thank you on behalf of everyone on the committee, and I thank you personally for the way in which you have handled me in particular.
We will change the subject immediately.
Meeting closed at 10:53.