Welfare Reform Committee
Meeting date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Official Report
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Decision on Taking Business in Private
I welcome the witnesses and the public to the 11th meeting in 2012 of the Welfare Reform Committee. I remind everyone to switch off all mobile phones and other electronic devices.
Our first agenda item would have been a declaration of interests, but the member who must do that is not with us yet, so we will move to item 2 and skip back to item 1 when she arrives.
Under what is listed as item 2, I invite the committee to agree to take in private later in the meeting certain items in relation to the Welfare Reform (Further Provision) (Scotland) Act 2012. The committee is invited specifically to agree that consideration of agenda items 5, 6 and 7 be taken in private. Those items will focus on invitations to possible future witnesses, topics for a future chamber debate and consideration of the Scottish Government’s draft budget for 2013-14. Do members agree to take those items in private?
Members indicated agreement.