Social Inclusion, Housing and Voluntary Sector Committee, 29 Mar 2000

Meeting date: Wednesday, March 29, 2000

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Future Business

We have a packed agenda for next week. I will hand over to Martin Verity.

On next week's agenda is a discussion of our report on the voluntary sector. We are inviting witnesses to that meeting. We are hoping, subject to confirmation, to go through the first scrutiny stages of the budget. That depends on the information being available to us. The committee also asked for a further update on the proposals for the inquiry into drug misuse in deprived communities.

As members know, we are trying to organise a meeting on the same day, during which we can start to go through the wealth of evidence on housing stock transfer that the committee has received, so that the clerks can start work over Easter on producing a draft report, which the committee will be able to consider in May.

Is it possible to have lunch arranged for us next Wednesday, as we will be working from 9 in the morning to 2 in the afternoon?

Does next week's meeting start at 9 o'clock?

No—I am exaggerating slightly. I just want my sandwiches.

We will do what we can.

It will be a quite a hefty meeting next week, because it will take us a long time to get through the report. That is the price we pay for taking so much evidence.

We will have big problems, because that is also the day of the Holyrood debate.

So it is. We will have to see what we can get through.

Could we suggest a stock transfer for Holyrood?

We are coming to the stage at which there will need to be private investment in that.

I thank everyone for their help.

Meeting closed at 12:38.