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Chamber and committees

Finance and Constitution Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, February 12, 2020


Contents


Decision on Taking Business in Private

The Deputy Convener (Adam Tomkins)

Good morning and welcome to the third meeting in 2020 of the Finance and Constitution Committee. Parliament is in recess, but due to the budget timescales this year, we have had to arrange a meeting this week. I am very grateful to the clerks and other Parliament officials for making this possible, and to members for rearranging their diaries.

We have received apologies from our convener, Bruce Crawford, and from Alexander Burnett, Alex Rowley and John Mason. I welcome George Adam and Sarah Boyack, who are attending as substitute members. I remind everyone to put their mobile phones in a mode that will not interfere with our proceedings.

Agenda item 1 is to ask the committee to decide whether to take in private consideration of future draft reports on the Scottish Government’s budget for 2020-21. Do members agree to do that?

Members indicated agreement.