Agenda item 2 is consideration of our draft annual report for 2012-13. Paper 2 sets out a draft of the report, which I invite members to agree. A few changes will be made to paragraph 7 so that a Gypsy Traveller site that was missed out can be included.
I was not a member of the committee at that stage, of course. I am pleased that the Equal Opportunities Committee uses concise and plain English in its reports. I am a great supporter of plain English, for obvious reasons.
Good; we like plain English.
Will the chamber debates that we have had be included? You mentioned changes. Is this week’s debate outwith the period of the report?
Yes.
Did we have another debate—or was that included in last year’s report?
We had the chamber debate on women and work last June.
Yes, it was in June—that is mentioned in the report.
Is the committee happy to agree the draft report with the one small change at paragraph 7 that I described?
May I ask when the report will go online?
The reports are all published at the same time; we believe that it will be next week.
That concludes today’s meeting. Our next meeting, which will take place on Thursday 6 June, will be held in private as it will include consideration of a draft report on our women and work inquiry.
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