Finance Committee, 23 Jan 2007

Meeting date: Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Official Report 238KB pdf

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Decision on Taking Business in Private

I welcome the press and public to this morning's Finance Committee meeting. As usual, I invite everyone to turn off their pagers, mobile phones and BlackBerrys. Apologies have been received from Dr Elaine Murray and Gordon Jackson.

The first item on our agenda is to seek the committee's agreement to consider in private our draft report on the financial memorandum to the Commissioner for Older People (Scotland) Bill. Members will recall that because the Communities Committee no longer intends to consider the bill, we deferred our report until that committee took a decision on its approach. Are members content to consider the draft report in private?

Members indicated agreement.