Finance Committee, 20 Apr 2004

Meeting date: Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Official Report 281KB pdf

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Annual Report

Agenda item 4 is consideration of the committee's annual report. Members have a copy of the draft report and the covering note. The format and length of annual reports are agreed by the Conveners Group, so that there is consistency across committees. Some statistics are to be added on the number of meetings and so on, but we wanted to put the draft report before the committee for agreement. Are members content for it to go forward as our report?

I have a small point on paragraph 7. On the inquiry into the relocation of public sector jobs, my recollection was that we reached a decision—in advance of receiving the petition—to take forward our work on relocation. We did not start the work in response to the petition; we actually absorbed the petition within our work.

That is probably accurate.

In paragraph 2, we could highlight the fact that a substantial element of the committee's work is dealing with budgetary issues. Given the volume of work that we do, we should highlight that a main element of that work is dealing with the budget. Perhaps the report could be reformatted to take account of that.

With those changes, are members content with the report?

Members indicated agreement.

The final item on our agenda is consideration of a draft report on the Tenements (Scotland) Bill, which will be taken in private.

Meeting continued in private until 12.39.