Rural Development Committee, 20 Mar 2001

Meeting date: Tuesday, March 20, 2001

Official Report 172KB pdf

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Food Standards Conference (Invitation)

We move to item 8, which is an invitation to the food standards conference. The committee will consider whether a member of the committee should attend the conference. That means whether a member wishes to attend; it is not obligatory that this committee send a representative. The conference is on Wednesday 4 April, and I believe that it is being hosted in Edinburgh by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. That day is the last day before the recess. Are there any volunteers?

The deputy convener?

The deputy convener?

I do not know if we have a deputy convener at the moment. I believe that Tom Edwards of the Scottish Parliament information centre has expressed an interest in attending. We can have a report from him on his attendance at the conference.

I understood that the deputy convener had been unanimously put forward by the committee.

By popular acclamation.

As Jamie Stone has correctly pointed out, there is a vital fishing debate that day, which requires my attendance.

I thank members for their forbearance with their temporary convener. I thank the official reporters, and declare the public part of this meeting closed.

Meeting continued in private until 16:02.