We have two brief items to deal with. Members know that this is our final meeting until 25 October 2005. The Carnegie awards on 4 October mean that we will not meet then, and the two-week October recess follows that. It is likely that the Executive will introduce a couple of bills during that period. Normally, it would be for the committee to decide at a public meeting the level of scrutiny that each financial memorandum should receive. However, as there will be no meetings during that period, I ask members to delegate to me the authority to determine an appropriate level of scrutiny. That would allow the clerks to set in motion the evidence sessions that we may require to conduct effective scrutiny. I stress that such delegated authority would last only for this short period and that on our return we would revert to normal procedure. Do members agree to delegate authority to me to decide appropriate levels of scrutiny for the financial memoranda to any bills that are introduced in the next three weeks?
We now come to our final item, which is our draft submission to the Subordinate Legislation Committee for its inquiry into the regulatory framework in Scotland. As previously agreed, this item will be taken in private.
Meeting continued in private until 12:56.
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