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Agenda item 4 is consideration of the committee’s draft annual report for the parliamentary year 11 May 2014 to 10 May 2015. I refer members to the draft report. The strict guidance is that we must stick to a 1,500-word limit. Do members have any points to make?
Paragraph 32 refers to the committee’s visits to Laggan farm and Peel farm. Of course, those of us who visited Peel farm also visited the vodka distillery farm diversification projects. I accept your point about the word limit, but should we note that?
As no other member has any point to make, I will make one about how the footnotes are laid out. I hope that we can find a slightly more truncated way of saying what is in them. It has been pointed out by someone who has studied Latin that “ibid” is quite a useful means of reducing the length of footnotes. Also, the positioning of the footnotes at the end of the report is not necessarily helpful in every case. If the annual reports are to be read, including online, they require to be easily accessible to those who do so. I hope that we will make that point when we speak to the Parliament authorities about how the information is presented.
As there is nothing else substantive to say about the draft report, do members agree that they are happy to accept its contents and that it should be published next week?
Members indicated agreement.
At our next meeting, which is tomorrow, the committee will take evidence from the chief executive of First Milk.
Meeting closed at 12:18.
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