Finance Committee, 26 Apr 2005
Meeting date: Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Official Report
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Efficient Government
Agenda item 4 is a paper that outlines possible case study visits in connection with our monitoring of efficient government. When we agreed our forward work programme, we agreed that we would take evidence from some non-departmental public bodies and councils. The paper proposes that we visit people on the ground rather than have formal evidence-taking sessions in Edinburgh. Therefore, I seek members' agreement to have two visits on 7 June and two visits on 21 June.
The paper suggests that we visit Scottish Natural Heritage and VisitScotland on 7 June and that we go to Glasgow and Stirling on 21 June. However, I now understand that the chief executive of SNH will not be around on 7 June. Therefore I propose to swap the dates around, so that we visit Glasgow and Stirling on 7 June and SNH and VisitScotland on 21 June.
The paper's suggestion about which members should be in each group has been made on the basis of proximity, in an attempt to make travel arrangements straightforward. If individuals want to be swapped round, they should ask the clerks after the meeting rather than raise such issues just now.
Do members have any points that they want to make about the paper? Are members agreeable to the approach that the paper outlines?
Members indicated agreement.
I will suspend the meeting for two minutes to allow the Minister for Transport, who has arrived for our next item, to take his place.
Meeting suspended.
On resuming—