Standards Committee, 28 Feb 2001

Meeting date: Wednesday, February 28, 2001

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Cross-party Groups

Our next agenda item is consideration of applications for recognition as a cross-party group. Members will note that the clerks have included a list of the groups that have been previously been accorded cross-party group status by the committee. I am advised that work is under way on an issues paper on how the cross-party groups operate at Westminster and elsewhere, as requested by the committee in January.

We have two applications to consider this morning, the first of which is a proposed group on the Scots language. I notice that both Tricia Marwick and Lord James Douglas-Hamilton are members of the group. Do members have any comments?

Only that the application was submitted in standard English.

Your standard English, Frank.

Are members happy to approve the application?

Members indicated agreement.

The second application is for a cross-party group on mental health. Are members content to approve the application?

Members indicated agreement.

Our final agenda item is a discussion on possible lines of questioning for our next evidence-taking session on lobbying. As agreed at the beginning of the meeting, we will now move into private session.

Meeting continued in private until 12:13.