Finance Committee, 25 Jan 2005
Meeting date: Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Official Report
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Items in Private
Good morning. I welcome members, the press and the public to the Finance Committee's third meeting of 2005. I remind people to turn off their pagers and mobile phones. We have apologies from Alasdair Morgan, who has the flu, and from Frank McAveety, who has transport difficulties. I expect Jeremy Purvis to join us later.
Today's meeting is probably the last at which Terry Shevlin will be with us, as he is leaving the Finance Committee team to work with the private bills unit. I said goodbye to him from this committee once before and he returned, but I am sure that he will manage to escape this time. He is due to be replaced by Judith Evans, who currently works for the Enterprise and Culture Committee. On members' behalf, I thank Terry for all his hard work and welcome Judith to the team.
Agenda item 1 is consideration of whether to take in private item 5, under which I will report on my discussions with the convener of the Communities Committee about the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Bill, on which we took evidence last week. I suggest that we also take in private our draft report on the bill at our next meeting. Do members agree?
Members indicated agreement.