Rural Development Committee, 26 Mar 2002

Meeting date: Tuesday, March 26, 2002

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Local Government Covenant

Agenda item 5 is consideration of the local government covenant. We have received a letter from Trish Godman, convener of the Local Government Committee, and a copy of the draft covenant. The Rural Development Committee must comment on the covenant by 26 April. The covenant outlines the proposed working relationship between local government and the Scottish Parliament, following the recommendations of the McIntosh commission.

We are invited to consider and comment on the draft document. It is intended that the covenant should become a topic of committee business in the chamber thereafter. Are members content that we have no comment to make on the draft covenant at this stage?

Members indicated agreement.

Meeting suspended until 14:58 and thereafter continued in private until 16:21.