Local Government Committee, 30 Apr 2002
Meeting date: Tuesday, April 30, 2002
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Scottish Parliament Local Government Committee Tuesday 30 April 2002 (Afternoon)
[The Convener opened the meeting at 14:02]
Okay, comrades, we can start.
First, I welcome Fiona Burns, who is a policy adviser with Saltire Public Affairs within the firm of Shepherd and Wedderburn WS. She is shadowing Elaine Thomson this week as part of the Parliament's business exchange programme and will be an observer at the meeting. The programme, for members who are unaware of it, exists to provide and develop opportunities to promote mutual understanding between members of the Scottish Parliament and business-related communities in Scotland. A similar programme has been up and running for a long time in Westminster; some of the things that the Westminster Parliament does are not bad and we can follow its example with this programme.