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Item 2 is on proposed guidance to NHS boards on accepting donations from external parties. I direct members to paper HS/S3/09/12/15, which contains a copy of a letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, who seeks our views on whether the proposed guidance is appropriate for dealing with the issue and whether Parliament should debate the subject. Can I have members' comments, please, on the guidance and whether a debate in Parliament is required?
At first glance, the guidance seems all right, and I do not particularly want to have a parliamentary debate on it. However, I would like the opportunity to run the guidance past a couple of my colleagues. Would it be possible to submit any comments by the end of the day?
There is no particular timescale. If you give me guidance today, we can draft a reply to the minister on behalf of the committee and send it to members to ask whether they are content with it or want to make amendments. If there is disquiet and members want to discuss the issue further, that will be fine. Does anybody else want to comment?
I am content with that approach.
The guidance seems common sense and provides a lot of sensible discretion. I do not think that we require a debate on the matter in Parliament. Does the committee agree with the proposal?
Members indicated agreement.
Item 3 is consideration of our draft report on the pathways into sport inquiry. As agreed at the meeting of 14 January, we will take this item in private. I ask members of the public to leave.
Meeting continued in private until 12:54.