Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee,

Meeting date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Official Report 139KB pdf

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Annual Report

Item 4 is our draft annual report for 2007-08. An additional paragraph has been provided on the fact-finding visit that we undertook to London and Brussels. Do members have any comments to make on the annual report?

It is a fair summary of the work that we have done. The only tiny omission that I can see—I may not be reading it correctly—is that there is no reference to our videoconference with people in Orkney. That may have been informal, and I do not know whether it counts.

Yes, that can be included in the report.

I do not know whether we are allowed to put pretty pictures in such reports, but we have been further and wider than other committees and it would be a nice idea to show that.

Perhaps the clerks can clarify whether we are allowed to put pretty pictures in our annual report.

There is nothing to preclude that, although I think that it would be setting a precedent.

I advise the committee that the videoconference with Orkney was outwith the reporting year, so it cannot be included in this report. It will be included in next year's report.

The pictures need not be pretty, but they could be illustrative of the work that we have been doing.

I leave it to members to speculate whether we would be included in the pictures according to those criteria. I suggest that the clerks and I consider the possibility of including pictures.

There has been discussion about whether there should be specific reporting on sustainable development as a theme in annual reports. Has a decision been taken on that?

That is still being developed.

In that case, are we content with the annual report as it has been presented to us?

Members indicated agreement.

Thank you. That is the end of our agenda. The next meeting will be on Tuesday 3 June, when we will take evidence from the minister as part of our ferries inquiry.

Meeting closed at 14:43.