Public Audit Committee
Meeting date: Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Official Report
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Decision on Taking Business in Private
Good morning and welcome to the 12th meeting in 2014 of the Public Audit Committee. I have apologies from Tavish Scott and Colin Keir, and Liam McArthur and David Torrance are here as substitutes.
Before I start the meeting, I draw members’ attention to an issue that James Dornan has raised with me about a report that I believe appeared in the Sunday Herald prior to publication of the committee’s report on police reform. I remind members that the principles of the committee system in this Parliament work on the basis of confidentiality and that information relating to private reports should not be given to the media prior to their publication. If members start to provide the media with details of the contents of private reports prior to their publication, it would bring into question the whole basis on which we produce those reports. I hope that members will take that to heart. I am not suggesting that it was a member who did it, but whoever is responsible has done the committee no favours.
Agenda item 1 is a decision on taking business in private. Do members agree to take items 6 and 8 in private?
Members indicated agreement.