Justice 2 Committee, 23 Jan 2002
Meeting date: Wednesday, January 23, 2002
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Scottish Parliament Justice 2 Committee Wednesday 23 January 2002 (Morning)
[The Convener opened the meeting in private at 09:35]
Meeting continued in public.
Good morning everyone, and welcome to the third meeting in 2002 of the Justice 2 Committee. I welcome our witnesses and Roseanna Cunningham MSP to the committee. I ask members to switch off their mobile phones—I have not done so, but I have lost my bag. Apologies have been received from Stewart Stevenson. All other committee members are here.
There is just one item under the heading of convener's report. We attempted to organise two visits yesterday. Ironically, the members who planned to go furthest away, to Stornoway, made it there, whereas the members who planned to go to Gigha did not get there. However, I believe that they salvaged something from the trip. I suggest that we hear a report on those visits at our next meeting, which will be on 30 January.
Two Scottish statutory instruments, concerning police pensions, are included in the papers that have been circulated to members. The Local Government Committee is the lead committee on those instruments, but they have been referred to both justice committees as secondary committees. If members want to raise any issues relating to the instruments, they should alert the clerks. I think that they are quite straightforward.