Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Official Report 346KB pdf

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Decision on Taking Business in Private

Good morning and welcome to the fifth meeting in 2012 of the Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee. Members and the public should turn off mobile phones and BlackBerrys, as leaving them in flight mode or on silent will affect the broadcasting system. We also have a technical hitch that requires those who are bid to speak to press the large button on their console when they do and to press it again to turn the microphone off when they have finished speaking. We thank you for bearing that in mind and are sorry about the hitch. No apologies have been received this morning—the committee is all present and correct.

Agenda item 1 is a decision on taking business in private. We seek the agreement of the committee to take items 4 and 5 and the future consideration of a draft stage 1 report on the Agricultural Holdings (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill in private. Is that agreed?

Members indicated agreement.