Item 1 on the agenda is consideration of whether to take agenda items 8, 9, 10 and 11 in private. Items 8 and 9 are discussions about witness selection in respect of the Human Tissue (Scotland) Bill and the Abolition of Prescription Charges (Scotland) Bill. It is normal practice for the committee to discuss such matters in private. Item 10 is a discussion of the relative merits of various venues for the committee's care inquiry launch event. Item 11 is to consider updated information and advice about the postponed Scottish Haemophilia Forum evidence session. Committee members will remember that the reason for that postponement was a question about whether we could proceed, given that legal proceedings were being set in train. We have had further advice on that, so I thought that it would be worth discussing it this afternoon.
Members indicated agreement.
Apologies have just come in from Helen Eadie. She is unable to make today's meeting.